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Richard Travis Hall (born June 10, 1954) is an American comedian, writer, documentary maker 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'', ''
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'' (popularising the "
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" neologism), and ''
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''. After winning a
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in 2000, using the
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of
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an
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ian Otis Lee Crenshaw, Hall became popular in the
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, regularly appearing on '' QI'' and similar
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s. He has created and starred in several series for the
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, including
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with
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and
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often concerning
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. Hall has also maintained a successful
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career, as both Crenshaw and himself.


Early life

Richard Hall was born in
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, and grew up in
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. He is part
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. Early in his career, he performed as a street comedian with a suitcase and stand, traveling the college circuit and performing impromptu skits for gathering crowds. He attended
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.


Personal life

Hall married his wife Karen—a filmmaker and native of
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—in 2004. The couple have two children and reside in London.


Career


United States

Hall's first professional work was as a writer and performer on the original ''
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'' (1980) and the
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TV series '' Fridays'' from 1980 until 1982. After the end of ''Fridays'', Hall co-wrote and starred in the satirical comedy series ''
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'' from 1983 until 1990 where he coined the term "
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" to describe newly created words and collected and published several volumes of books of them. He was also a regular on ''
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'' for the show's tenth season (1984–1985), becoming the only ''Fridays'' cast member to be an ''SNL'' cast member (
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, 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
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channel special, ''Vanishing America'', which was turned into a book with the same title. He hosted a talk show during
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'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 ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Hall was previously a writer and on-air contributor on ''
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'', Letterman's morning show that aired on NBC in 1980. Hall made a special guest appearance as himself in the
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talk show ''
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''. In 2011, Hall voiced an
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man in
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's ''
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''.


United Kingdom

Outside the US, Hall has also achieved popularity in the United Kingdom. He spends part of his time writing plays in the United States, where he has a small ranch just outside
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. The rest of the time is spent in
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, where he owns a flat. Hall is a guest on popular
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panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on '' QI'', and also with appearances in ''
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'', '' Have I Got News for You'' and ''
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''. He has also appeared on the British stand-up comedy series
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's '' Live at the Apollo''. His appearances achieved some cult status due to his line of jokes on ''Live at the Apollo'' about
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and the perceivable similarities between many of his roles. In 2006, Hall also wrote and acted in the play ''Levelland'' at the
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. Hall has had four
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TV series of his own: ''Rich Hall's Badly Funded Think Tank'', ''
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'' in 2003, '' Rich Hall's Cattle Drive'' in 2006, as well as a one-off programme about the 2004 American Presidential Elections, ''Rich Hall's Election Special''. He also appeared on the
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programme ''
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'', where he successfully managed to make a song about a
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car, much to the enjoyment of host
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and the audience. After the
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, Hall was entrusted with the task of responding to the tragedy on the first subsequent edition of '' Have I Got News for You''. Hall has written and presented 90-minute documentaries about American
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, culture and history, broadcast on
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. Initially these documentaries focused on film genres: ''Rich Hall's How the West Was Lost'' (first broadcast June 2008) discusses
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, ''Rich Hall's The Dirty South'' (October 2010) challenges stereotypical Hollywood presentations of the Southern United States, ''Rich Hall's Continental Drifters'' (November 2011) examines the American
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, ''Rich Hall's
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'' (October 2012) discusses portrayals of Native Americans. His subsequent documentaries cover broader aspects of American culture and politics: ''Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas'' (June 2013) and ''Rich Hall's California Stars'' (July 2014) focus on Texas and California respectively, ''Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match'' (broadcast 7 November 2016, the day before the
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) is a history of
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and their election campaigns, ''Rich Hall's Countrier Than You'' (March 2017) discusses
country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
, ''Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream'' (July 2018) questions the attainability of the American Dream, and ''Rich Hall's Red Menace'' (November 2019) is about the
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. In 2007, he returned to the Fringe with his second play, ''Best Western'', which he wrote and directed. His autumn 2009 tour included a performance at London's
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, which was recorded and released in November 2009 as a live DVD. In 2009, he performed at the
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in two shows, his solo stand up and also with longtime collaborator Mike Wilmot and
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-based actor Tim Williams in a new play entitled ''Campfire Stories''. On April 5, 2010, Hall appeared as one of the stand-up acts on ''
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'', a benefit show organized by
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to raise money for
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. Hall was a regular performer on Channel 4's '' Stand Up for the Week'', which began in June 2010. In January 2015, Hall started a comedy tour of the UK called ''3:10 to Humour'' Hall also frequently appears in episodes of ''
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''.


Other appearances

Rich Hall made an Irish TV appearance as a guest on the fifth series of
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's topical news comedy programme, ''
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'', and has appeared at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival on 15 occasions. He has also performed at the West
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Festival/ Feile an Phobail, one of the largest community festivals in Ireland, to a sell-out audience where he received widespread critical acclaim. He appeared in several
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commercials in the 1980s, mainly promoting Pizza Hut's guarantee of serving each customer within five minutes. Hall has achieved some popularity in Australia, regularly appearing at the
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and the
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, and on Australian comedy panel shows such as '' The Glass House'' and '' Spicks and Specks''. Hall appeared at the Garvey 1989 Celebrity Ski Classic and at the Altitude Comedy Festival 2008 in the ski resort of Meribel in France. He also appeared – albeit briefly – in the 2006 ''Cheap Seats'' (ESPNCL) episode titled "Steve Garvey Celebrity Skiing". From 2015 onwards, Hall has lent his voice as Captain Taylor in the ITV series '' Thunderbirds Are Go'', with the character first appearing in the episode "Relic". The character made further appearances in show's second and third season. Hall is a frequent guest panellist on the British panel show '' QI'', having appeared 25 times on the show. He has also won more episodes than any other guest panellist (10).


Otis Lee Crenshaw

In 2000, he won the
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at the
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, under the guise of his own grizzled uncle, Otis Lee Crenshaw, the much-convicted country music singer. He has released several albums, including ''How Do We Do It? Volume!'' in 2003, and a concert video, as this character. The first album, ''London Not Tennessee'', in 2001, was recorded on the first comedy tour, and includes two duets on stage with US singer
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. In 2004, he published a book of the man's memoirs, entitled ''Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society'', and in 2007 he finished a screenplay for a film based on the book, written for the director
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. In 2008, Hall toured two stand-up shows around the UK: ''Rich Hall Autumn Tour 2008'' played around 45 dates and headlined as his alter-ego in a show entitled ''Otis Lee Crenshaw and Band'', with Rich Hall listed as a "special guest". He subsequently toured a version of this show throughout the UK and Ireland in 2009, with longtime sidekick Myron T. Buttram (guitarist and pedal steel player, Rob Childs) and Lonesome Dave (banjoist and guitarist, David Lindsay) appearing at the 2009
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Fringe festival, the
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, and the 2009
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Comedy festival. The band were originally credited as ''The Black Liars'', and were renamed as ''The Honky Tonk A**holes'' when joined by Horst Furst II (bassist, Nigel Portman Smith) and drummer Mark Hewitt.


Musical and literary career


Filmography

* '' Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment'' (1985) - Street Punk #1 (uncredited) * ''
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'' (1986) - Wilbur * '' Million Dollar Mystery'' (1987) - Slaughter Buzzard * '' C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.'' (1989) - Stan * ''The Lives of the Saints'' (2006) - Club Performer * ''
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'' (2011) - Idaho Man (voice)


TV

* ''Vanishing America'' (1986) * ''Monsters Ep15 "Their Divided Self"'' (1989) * ''
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'' (2003) * '' Rich Hall's Cattle Drive'' (2006) * ''Rich Hall's How the West Was Lost'' (first broadcast June 2008) * ''Rich Hall's The Dirty South'' (October 2010) * ''Rich Hall's Continental Drifters'' (November 2011) * ''Rich Hall's
Inventing the Indian ''Inventing the Indian'' is a 2012 BBC documentary first broadcast on 28 October on BBC 4, exploring the stereotypical view of Native Americans in the United States in cinema and literature. Presented by Rich Hall and Dallas Goldtooth, a Native ...
'' (October 2012) * ''Rich Hall's You Can Go To Hell, I'm Going To Texas'' (June 2013) * ''Rich Hall's California Stars'' (July 2014) * ''Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match'' (November 2016) * ''Rich Hall's Countrier Than You'' (March 2017) * ''Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream'' (July 2018) * ''Rich Hall's Red Menace'' (November 2019) * ''Elliott From Earth'' (2021) - Kane (voice)


Radio

* ''In Search of Southern Hospitality''


Discography

* ''London Not Tennessee'' (with The Black Liars) (2001) * ''How Do We Do It? Volume!'' (2003) * ''Waitin' On A Grammy'' (2016)


Bibliography

* 1984: ''Sniglets (Snig'Lit: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should)'', * 1985: ''More Sniglets: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should'' * 1986: ''Unexplained Sniglets of the Universe'' * 1986: ''Rich Hall's Vanishing America'', * 1987: ''Angry Young Sniglets'' (1987) * 1989: ''When Sniglets Ruled the Earth'' (1989) * 1994: ''Self Help for the Bleak: Attaboy Therapy'', * 2002: ''Things Snowball'', * 2003: ''Top Gear'', (2003) * 2004: ''Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society'', * 2009: ''Magnificent Bastards'',


References


External links

*
Rich Hall reading from "Magnificent Bastards" at writLOUD, London
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