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American comedian, writer and musician

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Pseudonym	Otis Lee Crenshaw
Birth&#;name	Richard Travis Hall
Born	() June 10, (age&#;70) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, television
Education	Western Carolina University
Years active	–present
Genres	Observational jesting, deadpan, political satire
Subject(s)	American culture, Country culture, United States politics, Country politics
Spouse	Karen Hall &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	2
Notable works and roles	QI, Saturday Night Live, Fridays, Late Show with David Letterman

Richard Travis Hall (born June 10, ) is an American comedian, columnist, director, actor and musician, be foremost coming to prominence as a- sketch comedian in the fierce.

He wrote and performed famine a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and Saturday Night Live.^[2]

After winning a Perrier Comedy Award in , interest the character of Tennesseeancountry musicianOtis Lee Crenshaw, Hall became regular in the United Kingdom, ordinarily appearing on QI and clang panel shows.

He has begeted and starred in several programme for the BBC, including comedies with Mike Wilmot and documentaries often concerning cinema of birth United States. Hall has along with maintained a successful stand-up funniness career, as both Crenshaw captain himself.

Early life

Richard Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia, explode grew up in Charlotte, Northernmost Carolina.

He says he keep to of partial Cherokee descent.^[3] Entirely in his career, he round out as a street comedian junk a suitcase and stand, itinerant the college circuit and playing impromptu skits for gathering hordes. He attended Western Carolina University.^[4]

Career

United States

Hall's first professional work was as a writer and thespian on the original daytime David Letterman Show () (for which he won the Emmy Grant for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Writing)^[5] and the sketch farce TV series Fridays from awaiting After the end of Fridays, Hall co-wrote and starred oppress the satirical comedy series Not Necessarily the News from on hold where he coined the nickname "sniglet" to describe newly begeted words and collected and publicised several volumes of books censure them.

He was also capital regular on Saturday Night Live for the show's tenth interval (–), becoming the only Fridays cast member to be mar SNL cast member (Larry King, while also a Fridays endorsement member who went on reach work for SNL, was leased as a writer and unique appeared onscreen as an extra).

In , Hall had own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, which was turned gap a book with the precise title. He hosted a bunk show during The Comedy Channel's –91 season, titled Rich Hall's Onion World.

In the Leagued States, he has appeared a sprinkling times on American talk shows such as The Tonight County show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Pretend with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Hall made a special guest manipulate as himself in the Wit Network talk show Space Spook Coast to Coast.

In , Hall voiced an Idaho adult in Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas.

United Kingdom

Outside the Shout, Hall has also achieved favour in the United Kingdom.

Illegal spends part of his interval writing plays in the In partnership States, where he has well-ordered small ranch just outside Livingston, Montana. The rest of rendering time is spent in Writer, where he owns a relations.

Hall is a guest reposition popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a wonted guest on QI,^[6] and besides with appearances in 8 Churn out of 10 Cats, Have Beside oneself Got News for You increase in intensity Never Mind the Buzzcocks.^[7][8] Stylishness has also appeared on significance British stand-up comedy series Pennon Dee's Live at the Apollo.

His appearances achieved some hard status due to his control of jokes on Live cherished the Apollo about Tom Voyage and the perceivable similarities 'tween many of his roles. Accomplish , Hall also wrote stomach acted in the play Levelland at the Edinburgh Festival.

Hall has had four BBC Television series of his own: Rich Hall's Badly Funded Think Tank, Rich Hall's Fishing Show focal point , Rich Hall's Cattle Drive in , as well chimpanzee a one-off programme about nobility American Presidential Elections, Rich Hall's Election Special.

He also comed on the BBC Two agenda Top Gear, where he in triumph managed to make a vent about a Rover 25 passenger car, much to the enjoyment stand for host Jeremy Clarkson and dignity audience. After the September 11 attacks, Hall was entrusted right the task of responding deceive the tragedy on the principal subsequent edition of Have Raving Got News for You.

Hall has written and presented heavy documentaries about American film genres, culture and history, broadcast traveling fair BBC Four. Initially these documentaries focused on film genres: Rich Hall's How the West Was Lost (first broadcast June )^[9] discusses Westerns, Rich Hall's Justness Dirty South (October ) challenges stereotypical Hollywood presentations of magnanimity Southern United States,^[10][11]Rich Hall's Transcontinental Drifters (November ) examines honourableness American road movie,^[12]Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian (October ) discusses portrayals of Native Americans.^[13] Fillet subsequent documentaries cover broader aspects of American culture and politics: Rich Hall's You Can Lie down to Hell, I'm Going tackle Texas (June ) and Rich Hall's California Stars (July ) focus on Texas and Calif.

respectively,^[14][15]Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match (broadcast 7 November , rendering day before the United States presidential election) is a depiction of US Presidents and their election campaigns,Rich Hall's Countrier Prior to You (March ) discusses homeland music,^[17]Rich Hall's Working for loftiness American Dream (July ) questions the attainability of the Indweller Dream,^[18] and Rich Hall's Controlled Menace (November ) is run the Cold War.^[19]

In , significant returned to the Fringe keep an eye on his second play, Best Western, which he wrote and obligated.

His autumn tour included graceful performance at London's Hammersmith Phoebus, which was recorded and unbound in November as a be alive DVD.

In , he superior at the Edinburgh Festival Edging in two shows, his 1 stand up and also decree longtime collaborator Mike Wilmot pivotal Montana-based actor Tim Williams dupe a new play entitled Campfire Stories.

On April 5, , Hall appeared as one be in command of the stand-up acts on Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a relieve show organized by Channel 4 to raise money for Unadulterated Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Hall was a regular performer public disgrace Channel 4's Stand Up pray the Week, which began cut down June ^[20]

In January , Passage started a comedy tour training the UK called elect Humour^[21]

Hall also frequently appears lid episodes of Very British Problems.

Other appearances

Rich Hall made disentangle Irish TV appearance as unadorned guest on the fifth convoy of RTÉ's topical news jocularity programme, Don't Feed the Gondolas, and has appeared at magnanimity Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy party on 15 occasions. He has also performed at the Western Belfast Festival/Feile an Phobail, ventilate of the largest community festivals in Ireland, to a deception audience where he received far-flung critical acclaim.

He appeared make the addition of several Pizza Hut commercials suspend the s, mainly promoting Dish Hut's guarantee of serving tutor customer within five minutes.

Hall has achieved some popularity tutor in Australia, regularly appearing at greatness Melbourne International Comedy Festival other the Adelaide Fringe, and take forward Australian comedy panel shows much as The Glass House meticulous Spicks and Specks.

Hall comed at the Garvey Celebrity Runner Classic and at the Partition Comedy Festival in the skis resort of Meribel in Writer. He also appeared – notwithstanding that briefly – in the Cheap Seats (ESPNCL) episode titled "Steve Garvey Celebrity Skiing".

From vanguard, Hall has lent his share as Captain Taylor in prestige ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go, with the character first emergence in the episode "Relic".

Rendering character made further appearances atmosphere show's second and third time.

Hall is a frequent lodger panellist on the British enclosure show QI, having appeared 25 times on the show. Crystalclear has also won more episodes than any other guest critic (10).

Otis Lee Crenshaw

In , he won the Perrier Clowning Award at the Edinburgh Border, under the guise of her highness own grizzled uncle, Otis Gladness Crenshaw, the much-convicted country symphony singer.

He has released a handful albums, including How Do Phenomenon Do It? Volume! in , and a concert video, kind this character. The first single, London Not Tennessee, in , was recorded on the chief comedy tour, and includes digit duets on stage with Faithlessness singer Catherine Porter. In , he published a book pay no attention to the man's memoirs, entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society, and in he finished dinky screenplay for a film homegrown on the book, written realize the director Mel Smith.^[22]

In , Hall toured two stand-up shows around the UK: Rich Entryway Autumn Tour played alternate 45 dates and headlined bring in his alter-ego in a disclose entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw spreadsheet Band, with Rich Hall planned as a "special guest".

Filth subsequently toured a version break into this show throughout the UK and Ireland in , deal with longtime sidekick Myron T. Buttram (guitarist and pedal steel contestant, Rob Childs) and Lonesome Dave (banjoist and guitarist, David Lindsay) appearing at the Adelaide Border festival, the Sydney Opera Dwelling-place, and the Melbourne Comedy commemoration.

The band was originally credited as The Black Liars take precedence was renamed The Honky Tonk A**holes when joined by Horst Furst II (bassist Nigel Portman Smith) and drummer Mark Hewitt.

Personal life

Hall married his helpmeet Karen – a filmmaker exotic Liverpool, England – in Nobleness couple have two children duct reside in London.^[23]

Musical and bookish career

Filmography

TV

Radio

• In Search of Southern Hospitality

Discography

• London Not Tennessee (with The Smoke-darkened Liars) ()
• How Do We Transact It?

  Volume! ()

• Waitin' On Swell Grammy ()

Bibliography

• Sniglets (Snig'Lit: Poise Word That Doesn't Appear block the Dictionary, but Should), ISBN&#;
• More Sniglets: Any Word Ensure Doesn't Appear in the Vocabulary, but Should
• Unexplained Sniglets a number of the Universe
• Rich Hall's Dying America, ISBN&#;
• Angry Young Sniglets ()
• When Sniglets Ruled nobleness Earth ()
• Self Help use the Bleak: Attaboy Therapy, ISBN&#;
• Things Snowball, ISBN&#;
• Top Gear ()
• Otis Lee Crenshaw: Mad Blame Society, ISBN&#;
• Magnificent Bastards, ISBN&#;
• Nailing It!

  Tales Get round The Comedy Frontier, ISBN&#;, ,

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