Rich Hall

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Richard Travis Hall (born June 10, 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and singer who rose to fame in the 1980s as a sketch comedian.

He wrote and appeared on a number of American television networks, including Fridays, Not Necessarily the News (popularizing the word "sniglet"), and Saturday Night Live. Hall became well-known in the United Kingdom after winning a Perrier Comedy Award in 2000, based on Tennesseean country singer Otis Lee Crenshaw's name, and appears on QI and similar panels.

He has produced and appeared in many BBC series, including comedies starring Mike Wilmot and documentaries primarily concerning cinema of the United States.

As both Crenshaw and himself, Hall has also enjoyed a fruitful stand-up comedy career.

Early life

Richard Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Mecklenburg, North Carolina. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation. He began his career as a street comedian with a suitcase and stand, toured the college circuit, and performed impromptu skits for large audiences. He attended Western Carolina University.

Personal life

In 2004, Hall married Karen, a filmmaker and native of Liverpool, England. Both the couple have two children and live in London.

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Career

Hall's first professional work was as a writer and performer on the original David Letterman Show (1980) and the sketch comedy TV series Fridays from 1980 to 1982. Hall co-wrote and starred in the satirical comedy series Not Necessarily the News from 1983 to 1990, where he coined the term "sniglet" to describe newly invented words and collected and published multiple volumes of books about them. He was also a regular on Saturday Night Live from the 1980-1990s to 1985, becoming the first Friday Night Live cast member to be an SNL cast member (Larry David), as well as a Friday Night cast member who went on to work for SNL (SNL).

Hall's own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, was turned into a book with the same name in 1986. During The Comedy Channel's 1990-91 season, titled Rich Hall's Onion World, he hosted a talk show.

He has appeared on American talk shows including Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Hall appeared on NBC in 1980 as a writer and on-air contributor on The David Letterman Show, Letterman's morning show that aired on NBC.

In the Cartoon Network's special guest appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Hall made a special guest appearance.

In 2011, Hall appeared in Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas as an Idaho man.

Hall has also gained a following in the United Kingdom outside of the United States. Parts of his writing stay in the United States, where he has a tiny ranch just outside of Livingston, Montana. The remainder of the day is spent in London, where he lives in a flat.

Hall is a frequent participant on popular BBC panel quiz shows, as well as appearing in 8 out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You, and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He has also appeared on Jack Dee's Live at the Apollo, a British stand-up comedy series. Due to his line of jokes on Live at the Apollo about Tom Cruise and the perplexing similarity between many of his characters, his appearances gained some cult status. Hall wrote and performed in the Edinburgh Festival's Levelland in 2006.

Rich Hall's Poorly Funded Think Tank, Rich Hall's Fishing Show in 2003, Rich Hall's Cattle Drive in 2006, as well as a one-off program on the 2004 American presidential election, Rich Hall's Election Special. He appeared on BBC Two's Top Gear, where he successfully performed a song about a Rover 25 vehicle, much to the delight of host Jeremy Clarkson and the audience. Hall was given the challenge of responding to the September 11 attacks on the first subsequent version of Have I Got News for You.

On BBC Four, Hall has written and presented 90-minute documentaries about American film culture, culture, and history. These documentaries began with a focus on film genres: Rich Hall's How the West Was Lost (first broadcasting June 2008) explores Westerns, Rich Hall's The Dirty South (October 2010) explores the American road movie, and Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian (October 2012) examines Native Americans' portrayals. Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas (June 2013) and Rich Hall's California Stars (July 2014) are a series of American Presidents and their election campaigns, while Rich Hall's Counting For The People (June 2017) addresses the Cold War.

He returned to the Fringe in 2007 with his second play, Best Western, which he wrote and directed. The autumn 2009 tour featured a live video of Hammersmith Apollo in London.

In 2009, he appeared in two shows, his solo stand-up and also with longtime collaborator Tim Williams in a new play called Campfire Stories.

Hall appeared on Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a charity event hosted by Channel 4, on April 5, 2010 to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Hall appeared on Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week, which began in June 2010.

Hall began a comedy tour of the United Kingdom in January 2015, titled 3:10 to Humour.

Hall appears in several episodes of Very British Problems.

Rich Hall appeared on television as a guest on the fifth series of RTÉ's topical news comedy show Don't Feed the Gondolas, and he has appeared at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival on 15 occasions. He has also appeared at the West Belfast Festival/Feile an Phobail, one of Ireland's biggest community festivals, to a sell-out audience where he was also greeted with brisk criticism. In the 1980s, he appeared in numerous Pizza Hut shops, mainly to promote Pizza Hut's pledge of meeting every customer within five minutes.

Hall has gained a following in Australia, appearing on Australian comedy panel shows like The Glass House and Spicks and Specks.

In the French ski resort of Meribel, Hall appeared at the Garvey 1989 Celebrity Ski Classic and the Altitude Comedy Festival 2008. He appeared in the 2006 Cheap Seats (ESPNCL) episode titled "Steve Garvey Celebrity Skiing," although for a brief period of time.

Hall has lent his voice as Captain Taylor in the ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go, beginning in 2015, with the character first appearing in the episode "Relic." In the show's second and third seasons, the character appeared in a new and relevant way.

Hall has appeared on the British panel show QI for the past 25 times. In addition, he has won more episodes than any other guest panelist (10).

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