Rich Hall Biography
Rich Hall, the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius quit his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service eighteen years ago and hasn't looked back. As a stand-up comedian and awards host there is no one funnier, more professional or more desirable.
Background and career
Looking like a Pearl Jam roadie, Rich is a master of absurdist irony while eschewing the human condition. He particularly likes to lay into Americans and life across the Pond at every opportunity.
As Rich Hall the stand-up, he has visited the Edinburgh Fringe Festival several times and performed at the major comedy clubs in Britain and across the world. He is well known in the United States for appearing and writing on The David Letterman Show - for which he won an Emmy Award.
In 1998, Rich Hall created the character Otis Lee Crenshaw, a redneck jailbird from Tennessee, who has been married seven times, all to women named Brenda. A singer-songwriter, Otis writes bourbon-soaked, Tom Waitsian tunes and blends this with audience banter, producing a perfect fusion of music and comedy.
Since then, Otis Lee Crenshaw has been charming sell-out audiences each year at the Edinburgh Festival, throughout the UK (on tour), at several festivals in Australia including Adelaide and Melbourne and at London's famous Comedy Store, where he had a monthly slot for six months. At the Edinburgh Festival 2000, 'Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw' won the highly prestigious Perrier Award - the Oscars for Comedy in Britain. Most recently he has been seen on our screens on various panel shows as well as C4’s Stand Up for The Week.
In the United States Rich Hall has appeared on The David Letterman Show and Saturday Night Live. In the UK, Rich has appeared on: Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee's Sunday Service and Edinburgh Nights.
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Rich Hall News
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Rich Hall Tour 2013
21st January 2013
Rich Hall is set to start his 2013 tour in February in London.
Rich Hall Reviews
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He is a supremely talented comedian, quick-witted, topical and charismatic on Buzzcocks, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee's Sunday Service and Edinburgh Nights.
Belly laughs and aching sides...whimsical and splenetic. The man is an extempore powerhouse...
Anecdotal, observational, inspirational, confrontational, apoplectic, aggressive, vitriolic comedy.
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