Punt and Dennis are a comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 double act

Double act

A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession, but drastically different personalities or behavior...

 consisting of Steve Punt

Steve Punt

Stephen Punt is a British writer, comedian and actor, best known for his long-time comedy partnership with Hugh Dennis. Punt lives in Wimbledon with his girlfriend and two children.-Life and career:...

 and Hugh Dennis

Hugh Dennis

Peter Hugh Dennis is an English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt. He is also known for his position as a permanent panelist on the TV comedy show Mock The Week...

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They came to public attention as one half of The Mary Whitehouse Experience

The Mary Whitehouse Experience

The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts - David Baddiel and Rob Newman, and also Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, all of whom had graduated from Cambridge University...

, a comedy show on BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 which then transferred to television. While the other two stars of the series, Rob Newman and David Baddiel

David Baddiel

David Lionel Baddiel is an English comedian, novelist and television presenter.-Early life:Baddiel was born in New York, and moved to England when he was four months old. His father, Colin Brian Baddiel, was a Welsh research chemist with Unilever before being made redundant in the 1980s, after...

 became major celebrities - playing to sell out audiences at Wembley Arena - Punt and Dennis never attained the same level of prominence. Their own TV series, The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show, did not capture the public imagination 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

Newman and Baddiel in Pieces

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Punt and Dennis worked on Jasper Carrott

Jasper Carrott

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's shows for many years, where they performed short sketches. They also supported him on tour.

In 1992 they went on the road themselves and toured the UK with a show called 'Punt And Dennis - The Milky Milky Tour'. The name of the show was inspired by a character called Mr Strange that Hugh Dennis played in the Mary Whitehouse Experience

The Mary Whitehouse Experience

The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts - David Baddiel and Rob Newman, and also Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, all of whom had graduated from Cambridge University...

. The Milky Milky tour was filmed live on stage at Bristol's Hippodrome Theatre in 1992 and released on VHS Video.

They currently have a long running topical comedy series called The Now Show

The Now Show

The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis...

running on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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. Also, a weekly round-up show on Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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, It's Been a Bad Week

It's Been a Bad Week

It’s Been a Bad Week is a British radio comedy on BBC Radio 2, first broadcast on 11 February 1999. It is presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and is also referred to as Punt and Dennis: It's Been a Bad Week. More than 100 episodes have been broadcast , the latest series ending on 22 June 2006....

and write a radio sitcom The Party Line

The Party Line (radio)

The Party Line is a British radio sitcom, co-written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and produced by Adam Bromley. It was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2005 and 2008. The show stars James Fleet as Duncan Stonebridge, a Member of Parliament for the imaginary constituency of...

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Punt and Dennis contributed to the BBC topical comedy panel show; Mock The Week

Mock the Week

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. Punt was a writer behind the scenes, while Dennis was a regular alongside Scottish comedian, Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle

Francis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle is a British comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic, often controversial sense of humour...

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In 2007 they performed a UK tour of their comedy called Stuff and Nonsense, in the promotional material of which they termed themselves "The Kings Of Shat-ire."

In 2010 they announced November 2010 preview shows and a new tour for 2011 to run from January - March.