Sean Hughes
In 1987, Sean started doing stand-up comedy in London clubs. He became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Perrier Award for ‘A One Night Stand With Sean Hughes’ at the Edinburgh Festival in 1990. The show also played to crowds in London and throughout the UK, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto and toured Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1991. Along with Owen O’Neil he was awarded a Fringe First when he returned to Edinburgh in 1999 with the short plays, ‘Dehydrated’ and ‘Travellin’ Light’. Sean then launched his successful TV career with the critically acclaimed 7 part sitcom ‘Sean’s Show’ for Channel 4, which Sean both wrote and starred in and hot on the footsteps of the first, a second series followed shortly after. As well as his comic writing, Sean has written two collections of prose and poetry and the first, ‘Sean’s Book’sold over 40,000 copies. Sean has also written two critically acclaimed novels ‘The Detainees’ and ‘It’s What He Would Have Wanted’.
‘hugely impressive and intelligent’ (Time Out);
‘high calibre comedy as it should be’ (The Standard);
‘one of the best stand-ups of his generation’ (Daily Telegraph).
His no-holds-barred, quick-fire wit shapes each performance into a one-off, unique experience for his audience.
Along with ‘Sean’s Show’, Sean is best-known to TV audiences for his long-running stint as team captain on the daddy of all panel shows ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ and also acclaimed drama The Last Detective … not forgetting starring as Eileen Grimshaw’s love interest, Pat, in Coronation Street.
Despite a nine-year break from performing stand-up, he was recently voted No. 40 in Channel 4′s ‘World’s 100 Greatest Comedians’ poll. His equally wide-ranging film and theatre career includes starring roles in the film adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon and, with Sienna Miller on the West End stage, in As You Like It.
| TV CREDITS | ||
| The Legend Of the Lost Tribe (Animation) The Rubbadubbers So You Think You Can Nurse Best Man’s Speech Contributor The Last Detective Series 1&2 Friday Night Hijack World Rally Championship 100 Greatest Albums The World Comedy Tour – Melbourne Turn The World Down Up late With… Celeb Blind Man’s Bluff The Comic Strip Presents 4 Men in a Plane Gormenghast Inside Tracks The Greatest Store In the World Never Mind the Buzzcocks 10 series Life’s A Bitch Sean’s Shorts Sean’s Show Series 1&2 Aah, Sean Murder Most Horrid |
Tapir Voice Guest Mod Guest Guest Presenter Performer Performer Presenter Guest Ian Crisp Poet Presenter Elf Guest/Capt Hippy Writer/Performer Writer/Performer Writer/Performer Zak Mitchell |
BBC1 CBeebies Channel 5 ITV2 ITV1 Sky Arts Dave VH1 The Comedy Channel Channel 4 BBC Choice Channel 4 Channel 4 BBC1 BBC Choice BBC1 BBC2 Channel 4 BBC2 Channel 4 Channel 4 BBC2 |
| FILM | ||
| Puckoon Fast Food The Butcher Boy Snakes and Ladders Rocket Man II The Commitments |
Madigan Fish Psychiatrist Martin Einstein Dave |
Dir. Terence Ryan Dir. Stewart Sugg Dir. Neil Jordan Dir. Trish McAdam Dir Suzie Halewood Dir. Alan Parker |
| THEATRE AND LIVE | ||
| Patrick’s Day What I meant To Say Was Sick Room Sean Hughes, LIVE Australia Sean Hughes, LIVE UK The Right Side Of Wrong Tour As you Like It The World Comedy Tour Art Travellin’ Light and Dehydrated Thirtysomehow |
Patrick McGlin Stand Up Writer Stand Up Stand Up Stand Up Touchstone Performer Ivan Co writer Stand-up |
Battersea Arts Centre UK Tour Nat. Youth Theatre Australian Tour UK Tour UK Tour Wyndham’s Theatre Melbourne Wyndham’s Theatre Edinburgh Festival Riverside Studios |
| RADIO MUSIC AND V/O | ||
| The Sunday Lie In And This Is Them Dead Meat Sean’s Show |
Presenter Presenter Writer/Performer Presenter |
BBC6 Music Radio 2 Radio 4 GLR |