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. Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Downtown Waxhaw Waxhaw is a town located in Union County, North Carolina. ... For information about The Sketch Show TV programme, see The Sketch Show. ... Fridays was the name of ABCs weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from 1980 to 1982. ... Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show on NBC, that is also syndicated world-wide. ...

In 1986, he had his own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, which was turned into a book with the same title. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Showtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States. ...

He hosted a talk show during The Comedy Channel's 1990-1991 season, entitled Rich Hall's Onion World. The Comedy Channel (promoted on air as comedy) is an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television. ...

Rich Hall invented the term "sniglet" (if not the concept) and collected and published several volumes of them: A sniglet is defined as a word that should be in the dictionary, but isnt. While Rich Hall invented the word sniglet itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to describe things or concepts that have no official...

• 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)

He is widely considered to be the inspiration for Moe Szyslak from The Simpsons. Matt Groening has stated as much in interviews. ^{[citation needed]} Morris Lester Szyslak (pronounced //) better known as Moe, is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon; his family name is pronounced , rhymes with raining) is an Emmy-winning American cartoonist and the creator of the American animated television series The Simpsons [1] and Futurama, as well as the comic strip Life in Hell. ...

U.K.

Hall has also achieved popularity in the UK, where he now lives. In 2000, he won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, in the guise of his own grizzled uncle, 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. He has had two BBC TV series, Rich Hall's Fishing Show in 2003, and Rich Hall's Cattle Drive in 2006, as well as a one off programme about the 2005 American elections. and has regularly guested on Have I Got News for You and QI, both to major critical acclaim. He also appeared on the BBC Two programme Top Gear, where he successfully managed to make a song about a Rover 25 car, much to the enjoyment of the audience and Jeremy Clarkson. After the attacks of 9/11, Hall was entrusted with the task of responding to the tragedy on the first subsequent edition of Have I Got News for You. This article is about the year 2000. ... The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe sponsored by the Perrier brand of bottled water. ... A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ... Rich Halls Fishing Show is a comedy programme written by and starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. ... Rich Halls Cattle Drive is a television sitcom starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... For other uses, see QI (disambiguation). ... The current format of Top Gear is an Emmy Award and BAFTA winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, particularly cars. ... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ... The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ...

Appearances

He also made an Irish TV appearance as a guest on the fifth series of RTÉ's topical news comedy program, Don't Feed The Gondolas. Radio Telefís Éireann[1] (RTÉ; IPA: ,  ) is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. ... Dont Feed The Gondolas is an Irish television quiz show on RTÉ, similar in format to the BBCs Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ...

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 and Spicks and Specks. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is held each April in a number of venues across Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Glass House was a half-hour Australian comedy talk show which screened on the ABC from 2001 to 2006. ... The Spicks and Specks set This article is about the Australian TV show Spicks and Specks. ...

Rich appeared, albeit briefly, in the 2006 "Cheap Seats" (ESPNCL) episode titled "Steve Garvey Celebrity Skiing." He was also at the Garvey 1989 Celebrity Ski Classic event that took place in 1989.

Rich not only lives in the U.K; he also owns a home in the Shields Valley of Montana, near Livingston. (See 1/25/07 ed. of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle newspaper)

In the UK Rich appeard in the Channel 4 TV show "8 Out of 10 Cats" in series 4. 8 Out of 10 Cats is a comedy panel game made by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol) for Channel 4. ...

Discography

1. 2001 London Not Tennessee, with the Black Liars
2. 2003 How Do We Do It? Volume 1

Books

1. 1984 Sniglets (Snig'Lit : Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should) ISBN 0-02-012530-5
2. 1985 More Sniglets: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the Dictionary, but Should
3. 1986 Unexplained Sniglets of the Universe
4. 1986 Rich Hall's Vanishing America ISBN 0-02-547480-4
5. 1987 Angry Young Sniglets (1987)
6. 1989 When Sniglets Ruled the Earth (1989)
7. 1994 Self Help for the Bleak: Attaboy Therapy ISBN 0-8431-3669-3
8. 2002 Things Snowball ISBN 0-349-11576-1
9. 2004 Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society ISBN 0-349-11818-3

External links

• Rich Hall at the Internet Movie Database