Remembering Sean Hughes

The death has been announced of Sean Hughes at the age of 51. Hughes made his name as a stand up comic including winning the Perrier Comedy award. He had part in the film version of Roddy Doyle's book The Commitments playing a record label executive. In 1996  he gained what some would say was the biggest exposure in his career when he became a regular team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Hughes would inject his sense of humour in his contests against Phill Jupitus and with host Mark Lamarr pulled in for good measure. One example of this was in an identity parade round in which Lamarr put himself in the line up for an early 1980's rockabilly band lead singer on the basis on his own fashion self only for Hughes to insist that Lamarr was the subject of course he was wrong. Hughes left the show in 2005 and some would say the show was never the same since. He also did some straight playing Peter Davison's friend in the cop show The Last Dectecive..Hughes's death mean the world of comedy has been robbed of one of it's most unique voices.