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Punt & Dennis, Touring
Punt & Dennis, Touring
Plenty of funnies, but blather and repetition from the double act, too
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt: Funny, but less than the sum of their partsSteve Ullathorne
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis originally came to fame in the late 1980s as one half of the satirical sketch group The Mary Whitehouse Experience, with fellow Cambridge alumni David Baddiel and Rob Newman. Now, though, most people know them (as a double act, at least) as the lead performers in The Now Show on Radio 4.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis originally came to fame in the late 1980s as one half of the satirical sketch group The Mary Whitehouse Experience, with fellow Cambridge alumni David Baddiel and Rob Newman. Now, though, most people know them (as a double act, at least) as the lead performers in The Now Show on Radio 4.
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