Rich Hall
Rich Hall is an American comedian, born in North Carolina in 1954.
He was a writer and performer on the sketch comedy TV series Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live.
In 1986, he had his own Showtime channel special, Vanishing America.
Rich Hall invented the term "sniglet" (if not the concept) and collected and published several volumes of them:
- 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 has appeared several times on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In 2001, he assumed the character of much-convicted country singer Otis Lee Crenshaw, touring as the character and releasing an album and concert movie.
