Sean Hughes
June 2nd, 2007 by sparky
Sean Hughes will perform at The Big Chill 2009.
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Biography
Whilst working part time in a London supermarket, Sean Hughes came across the Comedy Store, and was determined to work there in the future. In 1987 he started working in The Comedy Store, and with his show, ‘A One Night Stand With Sean Hughes’ he became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award.
He marked his 30th Birthday with the “Sean Hughes Is Thirty Somehow” tour, which was also broadcasted on Channel 4, in 1995.
Hughes has recently returned to Stand-up, with a UK tour. Bored with acting he describes stand-up as ‘the one thing that puts the fire in my belly’.
As well as comedy, Hughes has also written collections of prose and poetry and worked on a number of films. He also presented weekend radio shows on the BBC’s London radio station BBC GLR, and in 2002 joined BBC 6 Music, presenting the Sunday morning programme.
Sean has also written two novels, The Detainees (1998) and It’s What He Would Have Wanted (2000). Both have the same dark observational humor of his other work and compare favourably with the writings of other stand-ups turned novelists.
In 1992 he had his own TV show, Sean’s Show, ostensibly set in his own home. It received a nomination for the 1992 British Comedy Award for Best Channel 4 Sitcom and is currently available via Virgin Media’s TV on Demand service.
Hughes later recorded a series of brief programmes called Sean’s Shorts, in which he toured England, visiting many of the country’s towns and cities, visiting local places of interest and meeting local people.
Until 2002 he was a panellist on the BBC 2 comedy quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks, alongside Phill Jupitus and Mark Lamarr. He has since stated, in the course of his stand up routine, that he purposely left the show because he disliked the fact that much of the apparent “spontaneity” from the guests was, in fact, rehearsed.
In ITV’s series, The Last Detective, featuring “Dangerous” Davies, Sean plays his friend, the perpetually unemployed and well-read Mod Lewis (he spends all his time at the library to save on heating).
Hughes currently lives in London with his cat and two dogs. He continues to be an avid fan of Crystal Palace Football Club.
He was asked to take part in Strictly Come Dancing, disappointingly, he refused.
A friend of Bill Hicks, he wrote the foreword to Cynthia True’s biography, American Scream. The Bill Hicks Story. Often compared to one another, Hughes wrote about Hicks, “Being a genius is a heavy burden and he’s the only one I’m ever likely to meet. I still miss you Bill.”
The latest news is that Sean Hughes is set to play Eileen Grimshaw’s new love interest in the British soap, Coronation Street.
With that pedigree, you can can guarantee that a wry, rib-tickling treat is in store.
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Sean Hughes will perform at The Big Chill 2009.
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