Peter Hugh Dennis FRGS (born 13 February 1962) is an English comedian, presenter, actor, impressionist and writer.

[6] He grew up in the Mill Hill suburb of London as his father was appointed vicar of the local John Keble Church soon after his birth.

[10] He also joined the Footlights, where he first met Steve Punt and club president Nick Hancock, and the trio collaborated on a number of projects besides the annual revue.

[16] As an impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image[17] and appeared with Punt as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.

On The Now Show, Dennis was originally in a line-up including Punt, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.

He is friends with Chris Morris and has had cameos on Brass Eye as well as doing the narration for the CBBC show Sam and Mark's Guide to Dodging Disaster.

[21] Dennis has starred in a number of sitcoms, including My Hero, in which he played obnoxious GP Piers Crispin.

From 2007 to 2014, he starred in Outnumbered, a semi-improvised sitcom based around family life[22] and won a BAFTA nomination in the comedy category for the 2009 Christmas special.

Beginning on 16 February 2012, Dennis and Julia Bradbury hosted a four-part BBC One documentary series The Great British Countryside.