Rich Hall

Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. He was a writer and performer on the sketch comedy TV series Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live. He has appeared several times on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

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1954 - Waxhaw, North Carolina - American - Sketch comedy - Fridays - Not Necessarily the News - Saturday Night Live - Late Show with David Letterman - Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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In 1986, he had his own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, which was turned into a book with the same title.

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1986 - Showtime

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Rich Hall invented the term "sniglet" (if not the concept) and collected and published several volumes of them:

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• Sniglets (Snig'Lit : Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should) (1984)
• More Sniglets: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should (1985)
• Unexplained Sniglets of the Universe (1986)
• Angry Young Sniglets (1987)
• When Sniglets Ruled the Earth (1989)

Hall has also achieved minor popularity in the UK. In 2000, he won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, in the guise of his own grizzled uncle, Otis Lee Crenshaw. In 2003, he had his own BBC TV series, Rich Hall's Fishing Show and has regularly guested on Have I Got News For You and QI.

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UK - 2000 - Perrier Comedy Award - Edinburgh Fringe - 2003 - BBC - Rich Hall's Fishing Show - Have I Got News For You - QI

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He has also achieved some popularity in Australia, regularly appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and also on Australian comedy panel shows, like The Glass House.

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Australia - Melbourne International Comedy Festival - The Glass House

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Hall often tours as Otis Lee Crenshaw, the much-convicted country music singer. He has released several albums and a concert movie as this character, and in 2004 published a book of the man's memoirs, entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society.

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Country music - 2004

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