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Steve Punt

Steve Punt

  • 61 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and comedian

Press clippings

With the death of the BBC's The Now Show, we are in danger of losing the art of radio comedy

The Radio 4 stalwart is ending after 26 years, and it's a depressing sign that slapdash podcasts are taking over the genre.

Stephen Armstrong, The Telegraph, 7th March 2024

The Now Show to conclude after 64 series

Radio 4 has announced that the 64th series of The Now Show will be the satirical comedy's last. Hosts Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are to launch a new comedy podcast series in its place.

British Comedy Guide, 6th March 2024

Punt & Dennis to tour live show We Are Not A Robot

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are set to embark on a nationwide tour after a decade-long hiatus. We Are Not A Robot will run between April and June 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 19th February 2024

Now Show cleared of being 'pro-terrorist'

Radio 4's Now Show has been accused of showing 'bias towards terrorist groups' when talking about the Gaza conflict. A viewer complained to the broadcaster that Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt had wrongly described the phrase 'from the river to the sea' as 'a pro-Palestinian chant'.

Chortle, 19th January 2024

Radio Times poll of best radio comedies

Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has come top of a Radio Times list of the greatest radio comedy shows.

British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020

Steve Punt on the joy of bad stuff

Steve Punt's first encounters with unwittingly terrible cultural calamities left him with a lifelong love of abominable art, which he explores in a forthcoming edition of Archive on 4 tomorrow.

Steve Punt, The Guardian, 22nd May 2020

Radio comedies up for BBC Audio Awards 2018

Shows starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, John Finnemore, Marcus Brigstocke, David Jason and Jocelyn Jee Esien are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018.

British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2017

Brexitphobic comedians are the real populists

Sneering at the 'enemy within', stand-ups today are bien pensant demagogues.

Patrick West, Spiked, 7th April 2017

Radio review: The Now Show

Despite liking Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt since they emerged as Jasper Carrott's TV sidekicks, I've never been a big fan of The Now Show. Seeing it being made was far more fun than I've ever found it on air. Maybe the inclusion of relatively unknown Welsh performers like Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Tudur Owen and Lisa Jen Brown gave it a kick up the backside?

Louis Barfe, The Lady, 7th April 2017

Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 winners announced

The results of the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 have been announced. Red Dwarf, Upstart Crow, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme and Taskmaster are amongst the winners.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd January 2017