page_title: Rich Hall
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Rich Hall / Career / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Comedian Rich Hall at the at Tower Theater in Upper Darby This was a WYSP-FM all day live radio broadcast promoting the upcoming "Hands Across America." event on May 25th, 1986 The event event featured appearances and interviews with people such as Dennis DeYoung (of STYX) / Rich Hall / Andrew Dice Clay / Yakof Smirnoff / Kevin Dubrow (Of Quiet Riot) / Cy Curnin (Of The Fixx) / Larry "Bud" Melman / Local Philly Bands "Bricklin", "Smash Palace", "Separate Checks", "The Sharks" and many other various local and national celebrities. Photo By Sam Cali.
context_page_description: Richard Travis Hall is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live.
  After winning a Perrier Comedy Award in 2000, using the character of Tennesseean country musician Otis Lee Crenshaw, Hall became popular in the United Kingdom, regularly appearing on QI and similar panel shows. He has created and starred in several series for the BBC, including comedies with Mike Wilmot and documentaries often concerning cinema of the United States. Hall has also maintained a successful stand-up comedy career, as both Crenshaw and himself.
context_section_description: 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 until 1982. After the end of Fridays, Hall co-wrote and starred in the satirical comedy series Not Necessarily the News from 1983 until 1990 where he coined the term "sniglet" to describe newly created words and collected and published several volumes of books of them. 
  He was also a regular on Saturday Night Live for the show's tenth season (1984–1985), becoming the only Fridays cast member to be an SNL cast member (Larry David, while also a Fridays cast member who went on to work for SNL, was hired as a writer and only appeared onscreen as an extra).
  In 1986, Hall had his own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, which was turned into a book with the same title. He hosted a talk show during The Comedy Channel's 1990–91 season, titled Rich Hall's Onion World.
  In the United States, he has appeared several times on American talk shows such as Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Hall was previously a writer and on-air contributor on The David Letterman Show, Letterman's morning show that aired on NBC in 1980.
  Hall made a special guest appearance as himself in the Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
  In 2011, Hall voiced an Idaho man in Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas.
caption: Hall performing at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania in 1986
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