Education
Punt was educated at Whitgift School and Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge, where he read English.
Punt was educated at Whitgift School and Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge, where he read English.
Along with Hugh Dennis, he is part of comedy double act Punt and Dennis and presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 satirical news programme The Now Show. He is also a writer and programme associate for various television panel game shows, including Would I Lie to You? and Mock the Week, and is a writer for fellow comedians such as Rory Bremner and Jasper Carrott. He was in the writing team for three revues in a row.
While at university Punt began writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 series Week Ending.
Punt and Dennis later became resident guest comedians on shows presented by Jasper Carrott, including Carrott Confidential and Canned Carrott with Punt contributing in the writing team as well. They also toured with Carrott as a live support acting
After three years, the show had proved such a big hit that it transferred to television Punt and Dennis went on to perform in their own television sketch show, The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, and co-wrote and starred with Nick Hancock in the sitcom, Maine, You and Him.
Punt has worked more as a writer, script editor and voice-over artist in recent years, though he has also performed with Dennis in lieutenant"s Been a Bad Week for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2.
The pair are also the main presenters and writers of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s The Now Show and the writers of Radio 4 sitcom The Party Lincolnshire. Punt, with Mark Tavener, is co-writer of the 2007 Radio 4 series His Master"s Voice. He also, with the help of Hugh Dennis, Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn wrote The Now Show Book of World Records, a follow-up book for The Now Show.
Punt is a "programme associate" for the satirical programme Mock The Week, in which Dennis is a regular team member.
He has also written and provided additional material for Would I Lie to You?. In 2011, he began as presenter of a new quiz show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, called The 3rd Degree.
Punt played Eric Idle in the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation Holy Flying Circus, covering the controversy surrounding the release of Monty Python"s Life of Brian. Unlike his comedy partner Dennis, Punt has mostly done screenwriting and script editing for various British Broadcasting Corporation shows, television programmes and documentaries.
His 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.
On 3 January 2013 Punt appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. His specialist subject was Tony Hancock and his chosen supported charity was SANDS. During 2016 Punt toured with the production of the Rocky Horror Show cast in the role of the narrator.