Richard Travis Hall was born on June 10,1954 and is an American comedian, writer, documentary maker and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s.
27 Facts About Rich Hall
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Rich Hall wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live.
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Rich Hall has created and starred in several series for the BBC, including comedies with Mike Wilmot and documentaries often concerning cinema of the United States.
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Rich Hall has maintained a successful stand-up comedy career, as both Crenshaw and himself.
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Richard Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
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Rich Hall was a regular on Saturday Night Live for the show's tenth season, becoming the only Fridays cast member to be an SNL cast member.
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In 1986, Rich Hall had his own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America, which was turned into a book with the same title.
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Rich Hall made a special guest appearance as himself in the Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
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In 2011, Rich Hall voiced an Idaho man in Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas.
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Outside the US, Rich Hall has achieved popularity in the United Kingdom.
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Rich Hall spends part of his time writing plays in the United States, where he has a small ranch just outside Livingston, Montana.
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Rich Hall is a guest on popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on QI, and with appearances in 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
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Rich Hall has appeared on the British stand-up comedy series Jack Dee's Live at the Apollo.
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Rich Hall's appearances achieved some cult status due to his line of jokes on Live at the Apollo about Tom Cruise and the perceivable similarities between many of his roles.
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In 2006, Rich Hall wrote and acted in the play Levelland at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Rich Hall 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 host Jeremy Clarkson and the audience.
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Rich Hall has written and presented 90-minute documentaries about American film genres, culture and history, broadcast on BBC Four.
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Rich Hall was a regular performer on Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week, which began in June 2010.
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In January 2015, Rich Hall started a comedy tour of the UK called 3:10 to Humour.
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Rich Hall made an Irish TV appearance as a guest on the fifth series of RTE's topical news comedy programme, Don't Feed the Gondolas, and has appeared at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival on 15 occasions.
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Rich Hall appeared in several Pizza Hut commercials in the 1980s, mainly promoting Pizza Hut's guarantee of serving each customer within five minutes.
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Rich Hall has achieved some popularity in Australia, regularly appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe, and on Australian comedy panel shows such as The Glass House and Spicks and Specks.
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Rich Hall appeared at the Garvey 1989 Celebrity Ski Classic and at the Altitude Comedy Festival 2008 in the ski resort of Meribel in France.
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From 2015 onwards, Rich Hall has lent his voice as Captain Taylor in the ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go, with the character first appearing in the episode "Relic".
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Rich Hall is a frequent guest panellist on the British panel show QI, having appeared 25 times on the show.
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Rich Hall has won more episodes than any other guest panellist.
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Rich Hall subsequently toured a version of this show throughout the UK and Ireland in 2009, with longtime sidekick Myron T Buttram and Lonesome Dave appearing at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the 2009 Melbourne Comedy festival.