Sean Hughes RIP

BandMember · 16-10-2017 03:50PM

Very well put tweet by Paul Howard earlier....

Paul Howard‏ @AkaPaulHoward

Irish comedy in the 1990s. Linehan and Mathews were Lennon and McCartney to me. D'Unbelievables were the Kinks. But Sean Hughes was Elvis.

harry Bailey esq · 17-10-2017 01:31AM

Lorelli! wrote: »

I remember watching Sean's Show as a kid when i was about 10 and it stood out to me and he was great on Never Mind The Buzzcocks! RIP

I'm guessing we'd be about the same age. Loved Seans Show, didn't know what I was laughing at half the time but I was laughing nonetheless.

Lorelli! · 17-10-2017 06:58AM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I'm guessing we'd be about the same age. Loved Seans Show, didn't know what I was laughing at half the time but I was laughing nonetheless.

Ye, I can't remember whether I got the jokes or even if they were any good but I remember that I liked the way he talked towards the camera/audience. And I remember asking my Dad when it would be on again.

Asus X540L · 17-10-2017 07:07AM

Anyways thought he was English

Annasopra · 17-10-2017 07:10AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps the first Irish comedian that made me laugh. Back in the 80s, Irish comedy consisted of Brendan Grace and Maureen Potter. It was like we were stuck in a timewarp. Then he came along and blazed a trail, though kinda thought he himself never really capitalised on his early appeal.

Brendan Grace is telling the same jokes 30 years later

saintsaltynuts · 17-10-2017 07:25AM

Asus X540L wrote: »

Anyways thought he was English

Your right he was born in London.

Asus X540L · 17-10-2017 09:13AM

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Your right he was born in London.

I remember him on Buzzcocks had no idea he was irish.

Ashbourne hoop · 17-10-2017 09:19AM

Very funny guy. Saw him years ago in The Waterfront on the quays. Great show, bottles of Rolling Rock £1 too. Was also at the National Stadium gig earlier posters talked about. 51 is no age to die.

Ralf and Florian · 17-10-2017 09:48AM

Asus X540L wrote: »

Anyways thought he was English

Born in London and grew up in Dublin.

Yamanoto · 17-10-2017 10:20AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps the first Irish comedian that made me laugh. Back in the 80s, Irish comedy consisted of Brendan Grace and Maureen Potter. It was like we were stuck in a timewarp. Then he came along and blazed a trail, though kinda thought he himself never really capitalised on his early appeal.

Kind of ignores Dave Allen, who was by no means part of that Oirish Jury's cabaret sh1te.

17-10-2017 10:23AM

Yamanoto wrote: »

Dave Allen was by no means part of that Oirish Jury's cabaret ****e.

Tbh, wasn't even aware of Dave Allen in the 80s. Lived in 2 television channel land, he vey rarely featured on RTE.

Howard the Duck · 17-10-2017 11:17AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbh, wasn't even aware of Dave Allen in the 80s. Lived in 2 television channel land, he vey rarely featured on RTE.

The Church didn't want Irish people to know Dave Allen. Not sure if he was an influence on Sean but as I've mentioned they were both from the same area Firhouse. I'm from Firhouse and even now I'd say most people don't know Dave Allen. It's nice to say the same can't be said about Sean Hughes

fryup · 25-10-2017 10:17AM

NATLOR wrote: »

Devastating news. Sean was a childhood friend, we went through school and college together and caught up regularly when he came home
RIP my friend

did you go to the funeral? loads of celebs there i do believe...they did a stand up routine during the service i hear

Hooks Golf Handicap · 25-10-2017 10:37AM

I see the eulogising is a lot more fawning in here than other sites I go on, perhaps that's an Irish thing.
Apparently some writer for the Guardian or one of the other UK papers wrote a less than flattering piece about him following his death & it has been backed up by others since.
Anyway, don't speak ill of the dead, at least not in Ireland.

25-10-2017 10:46AM

Hooks Golf Handicap wrote:

I see the eulogising is a lot more fawning in here than other sites I go on, perhaps that's an Irish thing. Apparently some writer for the Guardian or one of the other UK papers wrote a less than flattering piece about him following his death & it has been backed up by others since. Anyway, don't speak ill of the dead, at least not in Ireland.

Fawning? Get ta fook. If a handful of people remembering the happiness a comedian gave them and lamenting that he won't be able to do it anymore is your definition of fawning then either you need a new dictionary or are trying to be edgy.

Hooks Golf Handicap · 25-10-2017 10:50AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Fawning? Get ta fook. If a handful of people remembering the happiness a comedian gave them and lamenting that he won't be able to do it anymore is your definition of fawning then either you need a new dictionary or are trying to be edgy.

Very good, carry on

Wanderer78 · 25-10-2017 10:53AM

fryup wrote:

they did a stand up routine during the service i hear

Jesus that would be hard to do at a friend's funeral. Rip

Grayson · 25-10-2017 12:00PM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Jesus that would be hard to do at a friend's funeral. Rip

The pythons did something similar.

fryup · 25-10-2017 10:34PM

so he died a lonely alcoholic

very very sad

25-10-2017 10:50PM

Hooks Golf Handicap wrote: »

I see the eulogising is a lot more fawning in here than other sites I go on, perhaps that's an Irish thing.
Apparently some writer for the Guardian or one of the other UK papers wrote a less than flattering piece about him following his death & it has been backed up by others since.
Anyway, don't speak ill of the dead, at least not in Ireland.

Read it, it's an interesting article.

But it's someone recounting their personal experience. It's like asking George Best's widow about someone she both loved and hated, because of his issues. But it doesn't stop the public saying...what a footballer. And that's with most of the posts here, they talk about his ability as a comedian. It is not negated by saying he could be cruel as an individual.

25-10-2017 10:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Read it, it's an interesting article.

But it's someone recounting their personal experience. It's like asking George Best's widow about someone she both loved and hated, because of his issues. But it doesn't stop the public saying...what a footballer. And that's with most of the posts here, they talk about his ability as a comedian. It is not negated by saying he could be cruel as an individual.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/oct/19/remembering-sean-hughes-the-sadness-is-he-didnt-get-to-be-old-just-lonely

dd972 · 25-10-2017 11:07PM

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Your right he was born in London.

Probably starting off another thread tangent here, but he was born in London to Irish parents and brought up in Firhouse from about 6 years old or thereabouts, he's not English, it's like saying he should be black if his parents were in Nigeria at the time of his birth.

Sean Hughes RIP

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