21 Facts About Dave Hughes

David William Hughes is an Australian stand-up comedian, television and radio presenter.

Dave Hughes is known for his larrikin personality, drawling Australian accent, and deadpan comedic delivery.

Dave Hughes is a regular performer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Dave Hughes had his first break on mainstream television when he was asked to do stand-up on Hey Hey It's Saturday, a show Dave Hughes revered growing up.

Dave Hughes recalled in a 2021 50-year anniversary Hey Hey special that he had not been more nervous before or since that set.

Dave Hughes co-hosted the ABC comedy talk show The Glass House along with Wil Anderson and Corinne Grant.

For ten years, Dave Hughes was a co-host of the Australian Football League-themed Network Ten Saturday night show Before The Game alongside Mick Molloy, Anthony Lehmann, Andy Maher and Neroli Meadows.

On 20 July 2009, Dave Hughes began co-hosting the half-hour Channel 10 show The 7PM Project, which later expanded to become the hour-long The Project.

In June 2011, Dave Hughes was one of the few people to be granted a one-on-one interview with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Australia.

In December 2013 Dave Hughes resigned from his full-time position on The Project to return to stand-up comedy.

Dave Hughes would appear once a week on the show from wherever he was around the country.

Dave Hughes began a year-long round of stand-up engagements around Australia, in Adelaide in February 2014, where he and his family will be based for five weeks before moving onto other venues.

In October 2014 Dave Hughes guest-starred in an episode of ABC-TV's Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery, in which Zemiro accompanied Dave Hughes back to his home-town of Warrnambool to reminisce about his childhood and to explore what influenced him to embark on a career in comedy.

Dave Hughes was the new solo host of Australia's Got Talent in 2016.

In 2025, Dave Hughes appeared as a contestant on the eleventh season of I'm a Celebrity.

In 2005 Dave Hughes appeared in a series of television commercials for the Australian car manufacturer Holden.

In 2009 Dave Hughes appeared in a three embedded advertising zoot review shorts promoting the return of Samboy Chips in which he reveals his favourite flavour is Atomic Tomato and shows off his signature "Conga Line" chip eating technique.

Early in his career, Dave Hughes had a brief appearance in an episode of Neighbours in 1998.

Dave Hughes has appeared in Ed Kavalee's comedy films Scumbus, which aired on Ch-10 in 2012 and the yet-to-screen Border Protection Squad.

Dave Hughes married Holly Ife, a reporter with the Herald Sun, on 31 December 2006.

Dave Hughes gave up drinking alcohol when he was 22 after deciding that it had become a bad influence in his life.