After graduating from the all-boys Christian Brothers' College, Warrnambool in 1988, where he was Dux,[REF] Hughes briefly studied IT at Swinburne University in Melbourne, and then Accounting at Deakin University in Warrnambool before dropping out to eventually pursue a career in comedy [REF].
He gave up drinking alcohol when he was 22 after deciding that it had become a bad influence in his life [REF].