Stephen Mark Punt was born on 15 September 1962 and is a British comedy writer, comedian and actor.
11 Facts About Steve Punt
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Steve Punt was educated at Whitgift School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English.
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Steve Punt was in the writing team for three revues in a row.
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Steve Punt has worked more as a writer, script editor and voice-over artist in recent years, though he has performed with Dennis in It's Been a Bad Week for BBC Radio 2.
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Steve Punt is a "programme associate" for the satirical programme Mock The Week, in which Dennis is a regular team member.
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In 2008 Steve Punt wrote the script for and performed in Rockford's Rock Opera, a critically acclaimed ecological musical story created with school friend, Matthew Sweetapple, which has been published as an audiobook.
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In 2011, Steve Punt became the presenter of Radio 4 quiz show The 3rd Degree.
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Steve Punt played Eric Idle in the BBC adaptation Holy Flying Circus, covering the controversy surrounding the release of Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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Unlike his comedy partner Dennis, Steve Punt has mostly done screenwriting and script editing for various BBC shows, television programmes and documentaries.
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Steve Punt's credits include The Rory Bremner Show, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, various episodes of Spitting Image and its retrospective documentary Best Ever Spitting Image, Baddiel's Syndrome and Horrible Histories.
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Since 2018, Steve Punt has been one of the 'comedy experts' paying tribute to a number of comedians in the Sky Arts television series Comedy Legends with Barry Cryer, with Steve Punt discussing the careers of comedians like Tina Fey and Tim Allen.