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Biography of Hugh Dennis - Comedian
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Hugh Dennis (born Peter Dennis, 1962) is a United Kingdom|UK actor, comedian and writer. A skilled Impressionist (entertainment)|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. 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. 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 General_practitioner|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. Dennis grew up in Bury St. Edmunds and famously his father was the Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich. ==External links== * imdb|name=Hugh Dennis|id=0219465 * http://www.footlights.org/past/1981.html Cambridge Footlights 1981-1985 UK-actor-stub

