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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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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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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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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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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1954: 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar....

Waxhaw, North Carolina: Waxhaw is a town located in Union County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,625. However, Union County has some of the highest rates of growth in the United States, and Waxhaw has seen a major construction boom since 2000. Many new residents live in Waxha...

American: :This page disambiguates the many uses of American. For an article about those various uses, please see Use of the word American....




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