How to use \showhyphens with beamer

When using \showhyphens with the beamer LaTeX class, the output of \showhypens doesn't appear on LaTeX's terminal output or in the .log file. The solution is to specify \rightskip=0pt, e.g.

\showhyphens{\rightskip0pt pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism}

results

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 9--9
[] \OT1/cmss/m/n/10.95 pseu-dopseu-do-hy-poparathy-roidism