Hugh Dennis

Hugh Dennis is an English performer who works as a comedian, actor, impressionist, presenter, and writer. Born in Kettering and raised in the Mill Hill area of London, he joined the Footlights while at Cambridge University and met Steve Punt, with whom he later formed the double act Punt and Dennis. He spent six years in marketing at Unilever while performing comedy with Punt at weekends, and after their BBC Radio 1 show The Mary Whitehouse Experience was commissioned for BBC Two, he left to pursue comedy full time. Dennis voiced characters for Spitting Image and sat on the panel of Mock the Week for its entire original run from 2005 to 2022. His television roles include Dr Piers Crispin in My Hero, Pete Brockman in Outnumbered, which brought him a BAFTA nomination, and Toby in Not Going Out. He presents The Great British Dig and appeared as Dr Hardy in No Time to Die (2021).