He’s become one of Australia’s best known comedians.
But it turns out Dave Hughes once tried his hand at acting – with the stand-up comic having appeared on Neighbours.
On Tuesday, the comedian sharing a clip of himself on the show in 1998 on his Channel Ten show, Hughesy: We Have A Problem.
Is that really you? Stand-up comic Dave Hughes shared a throwback clip of himself on long-running soap Neighbours, from 1998
Interviewing actor Ian Smith, who has played veteran character Harold on the show, the funnyman surprised his live audience with the clip.
The scene starting with long-time characters of the show, Susan Kennedy, played by Jackie Woodburne, getting out of a convertible.
‘Excuse me,’ she says, flagging down a stranger and about to ask for directions.
You were kinda cute! Dave, who would have been about 27-years-old at the time, looking different than today. In the snap pictured with fellow comedian Nathan Valvo
The scene then cuts a very young-looking Dave Hughes, who appears with ruffled brown thick hair and youthful looking skin, with him being about 27 at the time.
The Channel Ten live audience then roaring with laughter at the sight of the 47-year-old TV and radio personality.
Dave, who is wearing a flannelette shirt and a Driza-Bone jacket, then starts to give the TV couple directions to a mobile phone tower.
He starts: ‘See that little road down there, you go along that about five mile and you come to an old silo, ignore that, keep going about three and a half mile.’
We’ve both starred on the show! During Tuesday night’s episode, the long-time radio and TV personality spoke with Ian Smith about his retirement from the soap
The scene finishing with Karl Kennedy, who is played by Alan Fletcher, appearing frustrated while thanking him for his help.
Posting the short clip to his Facebook account, a number of his fans gushed over a young Dave: ‘you were kinda cute,’ one wrote.
while another added: ‘Something’s [sic] u should not share and this is one.’
The guests appearing on the show radio hosts Dave Thorton and Kate Langbroek.
Kate, who has worked as a writer for Neighbours, saying: ‘That was the precursor to Wolf Creek.’
Dave, then finishing the segment by speaking about Ian Smith’s retirement from the show, he served as a series regular until 2009.
We could have been co-stars! Dave interviewed Neighbours actor, Ian Smith, who played Harold until 2009, being one of the soap’s longest serving characters