 During this hiatus he quit both drugs and alcohol cold turkey and cut his long hair short.He returned to the comedy stage in 2014.In the 1990s Hughes was a hard rock VJ for MTV Australia By Hughes' own account, he got the job at MTV through the help of a friend who was a cameraman, but the job lasted only about 6 weeks after it was determined that there was not enough of a demand in Australia at the time for heavy metal-based programming.