Biography of Hugh Dennis -

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

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Biography of Hugh Dennis -