"This is the second to last night of a 120 night tour and you're sitting there like 'I don't know if this works'", said Sean Hughes exhausted just 10 minutes in as he struggled for laughs. "It's award winning!"

The audience wasn't impressed instantly when Irish comedian Hughes took to the stage at The Old Market on the penultimate leg of his Penguins tour.

But his relentless enthusiasm and persistence soon bought them round.

It seemed that walking on and taking a bow wasn't enough for the cheeky faced comedian.

Instead he began the show behind a black curtain, with a penguin puppet and a statue of Jesus, which he made sing along to the tune of La Vie En Rose, before taking centre stage with his custom smile.

Packed with visual gags, one-liners and what seemed like touching life stories Hughes drew in the audience and allowed them to warm to his silly yet sometimes relevant style of comedy.

Playing out like a touching yet surreal life story, the two-hour gig included Hughes's funny but entrancing worries of growing up.

Brave and bold throughout, he succeeded in getting laughs whilst pulling no punches on how trivial life's big moments really can be.