ON THE NIGHT

Your host for the evening...

Hugh Dennis

Comedian, writer, actor, impressionist and voice-over artist

Best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt and for the comedy series 'Outnumbered' and 'Mock the Week'. He is also a talented and captivating after dinner speaker and awards host.

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 as well as writing The Party Line (a topical polit-ical satire written and performed the day prior to transmission). On The Now Show he headlines with Punt, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.

Since August 2007 Dennis has starred in the hit BBC comedy 'Outnumbered,' a semi-improvised sitcom based around family life which has won numerous awards. Hugh has been a guest on panel shows from QI to Would I Lie to You? and has gone on to a host of both comic and serious acting roles from New Tricks to Agatha Christie’s Marple, Not Going Out to Doctors, Midsomer Murders to the acclaimed Fleabag.