Richard Travis Hall is an American comedian, writer, documentary maker and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and Saturday Night Live.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1985
Saturday Night Live
1984
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1995
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
2016
Have I Got News for You
1996
QI
2003
Top Gear
2003
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1999
8 Out of 10 Cats
2006
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1989
Would I Lie to You?
2008
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
61
Directing
1
Writing
12
Producing
1
2025
The Running Man
as Roberts
2025
Pointless Celebrities
as Self - Contestant
2025
Pointless Celebrities
as Self - Participant
2021
A Christmas Number One
as Poet
2021
Elliott from Earth
2020
Brave New World
as Phillib J. Bream
2019
Rich Hall's Red Menace
2019
Urban Myths
as Jimmy Gould
2018
Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream
as Self
2017
Rich Hall's Countrier Than You
as Self
2017
Celebrity Mastermind
2016
Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
as Himself
2016
Rich Hall: 3:10 To Humour
2016
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Self - Panellist
2014
Rich Hall's California Stars
as Himself
2013
Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas
as Himself
2013
Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2013
as Self
2013
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
as Self - Dictionary Corner
2012
Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian
2011
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
as Self
2011
Rich Hall's Continental Drifters
as Himself
2011
Making Qi
as Self
2011
Arthur Christmas
as Idaho Man (voice)
2010
Rich Hall's The Dirty South
as himself
2010
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
2010
Stand Up for the Week
2010
QI
as Self - Panellist (archive footage)
2009
Rich Hall: Hell No I Ain't Happy
as Himself
2008
Rich Hall's How The West Was Lost
as Himself
2008
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2008
What the Dickens?
as Self
2006
Comedy Central Presents: Southern Gents of Comedy
as Otis Lee Crenshaw
2006
Rich Hall's Cattle Drive
2006
8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
2005
Comic Aid
2005
Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy
as Otis Lee Crenshaw
2003
Top Gear
as Self
2003
Rich Hall's Fishing Show
2003
QI
as Self
2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Otis Lee Crenshaw
2001
Otis Lee Crenshaw & The Black Liars: London, Not Tennessee
as Otis Lee Crenshaw
2001
Room 101
as Self
1999
Man on the Moon
as Club Patron (uncredited)
1999
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self
1998
The Entertainment Biz
as Self
1996
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1995
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1994
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
as Self
1990
Rich Hall's TV Dinner Party
1989
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
as Stan
1989
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Edgar / Eddie
1989
Monsters
as Dr. Blackman
1987
Million Dollar Mystery
as Slaughter Buzzárd
1986
Harry Anderson's "Hello, Sucker!"
as Bartender
1986
One Crazy Summer
as Wilbur
1985
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
as Street Punk (uncredited)
1985
Vanishing America
1985
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1984
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1983
Not Necessarily the News
1980
Fridays
as Self