Hugh Dennis
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Hugh Dennis (born Peter Dennis in 1962) is a British actor, comedian, voice-over artist and writer. He was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead, in North London, and at St John's College, University of Cambridge.
A skilled impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and with comedy partner Steve Punt, whom he met at university, 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 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 plays obnoxious GP Piers Crispin in BBC sitcom My Hero. 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.
Dennis grew up in Mill Hill and famously his father was the Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He currently resides in Chichester.
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.
