Hugh Dennis

Hugh Dennis (born Peter Dennis, 1962) is a UK actor, comedian and writer.

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1962 - UK - Comedian

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A skilled impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and with comedy partner Steve Punt, whom he met at university in Cambridge, appeared as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.

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Impressionist - Spitting Image - Steve Punt - Cambridge - BBC - Jasper Carrott

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The pair then formed half of The Mary Whitehouse Experience on BBC Radio 1, later graduating to a television series. His radio work with Punt includes over a decade of performing both Punt and Dennis and The Now Show and a current run of writing The Party Line. On The Now Show he is in a line up including Punt, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.

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The Mary Whitehouse Experience - BBC Radio 1 - Mitch Benn - Laura Shavin - Jon Holmes - Marcus Brigstocke

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Dennis has performed on various TV and radio shows, including The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show and sitcom Me You And Him. He has guest hosted Have I Got News For You and plays obnoxious GP Piers Crispin in BBC sitcom My Hero. He is in huge demand as a voiceover artist. He currently appears on the panel game Mock the Week.

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The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show - Sitcom - Me You And Him - Have I Got News For You - GP - BBC - My Hero - Mock the Week

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Dennis grew up in Ipswich and famously his father was the Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

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Ipswich - Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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