Then, a decade or so ago, he stopped speaking to me, because he felt I had not responded to his needs with sufficient vigour. I know this because for several years during the 2000s, I was close friends with him. He was also arrogant, selfish, demanding and sometimes cruel. The persona that made him famous in the early 1990s on Sean’s Show – the melancholic, wry, puppyish indie boy – was part of who he was, but only part. It needs to be remembered that Sean Hughes was not the man one saw on TV.
I called him three days later, but he still hadn’t gone to the doctor.” Even so, as Donnelly notes, “to a lot of people who hadn’t seen him for a while, his death came as a shock”. It was like he was waiting for someone to give him permission. After the first week, I told him he needed to cancel the run and go home and see a doctor. I went to see his first performance, and he shouldn’t have been on stage. He showed up and – there’s no easy way to say it – he looked like a dead man walking. It came to a head in Edinburgh this summer. “In this last year, I’d been telling him he needed to sort his life out. Donnelly, a comedian who had been mentored by Hughes over the past decade and become very close to him, had been worried about his friend for months.
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