Punt and Dennis
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| Medium | Television, radio |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 1980's-present (intermittent) |
| Genres |
Sketch comedy Political satire |
| Subject(s) | Politics, current events |
| Notable works and roles |
The Mary Whitehouse Experience The Party Line The Now Show |
Punt and Dennis are a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The duo first met at the Footlights while studying at Cambridge University in the early 1980s. Initially they started off as an amateur double act performing at various venues in London on the weekends due to Dennis' weekday job commitments and have since branched out into acting and screen writing.
Punt and Dennis' first appeared on television in Jasper Carrott's shows during the late 1980s. They came to public attention as one half of The Mary Whitehouse Experience, a comedy show on BBC Radio 1 which then transferred to television. While the other two stars of the series, Rob Newman and David Baddiel, became major celebrities—playing to sell-out audiences at Wembley Arena—Punt and Dennis never attained the same level of prominence as a double act. Their own TV series, The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, did not meet the same success as The Mary Whitehouse Experience had, though it won larger audiences and was given a higher profile than the other pairing's spin-off project Newman and Baddiel in Pieces.
The duo continued to collaborate despite each having forged their own separate careers—Dennis as a panellist and presenter and Punt as a screenwriter. Their more prominent works include long-running radio shows It's Been a Bad Week (BBC Radio 2) and BBC Radio 4 shows The Party Line and the currently running The Now Show. They also contribute to the satirical hit panel game Mock the Week. Punt is a programme associate while Dennis is a regular panellist alongside Frankie Boyle and later Chris Addison.
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