Hugh Dennis
| Hugh Dennis | |
|---|---|
 Hugh Dennis (left) with Steve Punt on The Now Show | |
| Birth name | Peter Hugh Dennis |
| Born | 1962 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England |
| Medium | Stand up, television, radio |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 1980s – present |
| Genres | Topical comedy, improvisation |
| Spouse | Kate Abbot-Anderson |
Peter Hugh Dennis (born 1962) is an English comedian, writer, actor and voice-over artist, best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt.
Early Life
Dennis, whose father was the Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich, grew up in Mill Hill in North London. He was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead, and at St John's College, University of Cambridge, where he read geography. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, but after university worked for Unilever for six years. However, with Punt, whom he met at university, he carried on doing comedy, for example at London's Comedy Store. As mentioned on an episode of Have I Got News For You, he attended University College school with Will Self where they played Rugby together.
Radio and TV career
A skilled impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and appeared with Punt 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 Punt and Dennis, It's Been a Bad Week and The Now Show and a current run of writing The Party Line (a topical political satire that is written and performed the day prior to transmission). 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 played obnoxious GP Piers Crispin in BBC sitcom My Hero. He is friends with Chris Morris and has had cameos on Brass Eye. He is in huge demand as a voiceover artist and he currently appears on the panel game Mock the Week, in which he frequently refers to Showaddywaddy and car insurance.
In response to a news story in November 2003 about Rupert Murdoch giving jobs to his children, Hugh's son, Freddie, then only six, made a brief appearance on The Now Show.
Dennis also cycled the mountain stage of the 2007 Tour de France, a fact that he discussed on the fifth series of Mock the Week.
In August 2007 Dennis starred in the BBC comedy Outnumbered, a semi-improvised sitcom based around family life.
Personal life
He currently lives in Chichester with his wife, Catherine (Kate) Abbot-Anderson (whom he married in 1996), his son (born April 1997) and daughter (born July 1999).
External links
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- Cambridge Footlights 1983
- The Party Line
- Independent 5 minute interview August 2007
- Guardian September 2006 article
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