Hugh Dennis ; the Quick-Witted Actor From Outnumbered and Mock the Week Nearly Didn't Make It Into Comedy at All Interview Benji Wilson Photograph Joe Plimmer

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Hugh Dennis is a mine of information. While the star of Mock the Week, Outnumbered and Radio 4's The Now Show is being photographed, he regales me with stories of London's squares, street furniture...and Coco Chanel.

'She was forced out of France for being a Nazi collaborator and when she came here she shacked up with the Duke of Westminster. He put her initials everywhere. The lampposts around Trafalgar Square have "CC" on them,' he says.

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Hugh Dennis ; the Quick-Witted Actor From Outnumbered and Mock the Week Nearly Didn't Make It Into Comedy at All Interview Benji Wilson Photograph Joe Plimmer

How on earth does he know all this stuff? 'I like to know a tiny bit about almost everything. I do like a pub quiz.' It helps to have a bemused-looking human encyclopaedia to hand...

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