[2] Hunter began writing and performing with Jack Docherty as The Bodgers at the 1980 Edinburgh Fringe, along with Peter Baikie and Gordon Kennedy.
The showed was billed as having regular contributions from a couple of comedy acts, including Hunter and Docherty, at that time performing as Don and George.
[10] Hunter got work writing for Chris Tarrant's Saturday Stayback show made by Central Television which aired in 1983.
[17] Hunter, Docherty, Baikie and Kennedy were joined by Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes to make the sketch show Absolutely which broadcast on Channel 4 over four seasons from 1989 to 1993.
[22] Twenty years after Absolutely had first been on television,[23] the team prepared for a one-off live show for Radio 4's Sketchorama in Òran Mór, Glasgow to be produced by The Comedy Unit.
[30] Together with Gordon Kennedy, he produced two series of Secrets and Lattes a sitcom set in a middle-class Bruntsfield café which first was on BBC Radio Four in 2008.
[37] He has appeared in episodes of various comedy programmes: Rab C Nesbitt,[38]Bob Servant,[39] Badults,[40] Still Game,[41] and Gary: Tank Commander.
[43] He appeared in the 2006 film The Flying Scotsman, a drama based on the life and career of Scottish amateur cyclist Graeme Obree.
[44] He appeared in the BBC's forensic crime drama Silent Witness playing a depressed vet with a faulty hearing aid.