Rich Hall

Rich Hall

Political bashings a definite highlight

23 Aug 2011

With his gravelly drawl and laidback delivery, Hall is easy company. His American/‘Scots’ comparisons have a crowd-pleasing ring, so too a funny skit about bears (particularly the Yogi variety), but his political musings and reflections on the world’s…

Rich Hall’s Hoedown

Country and bluegrass gig from the gravel-voiced comedian

16 Aug 2011

There’s a reason Rich Hall has two shows at the Fringe – let’s get that out of the way first. His stand up show is his outlet for the majority of his jokes; his Hoedown set is an opportunity for him to flex his musical muscles, in the company of friends…

Five Comedy Shows Worth Watching On Telly

5 Jul 2010

Important Things with Demetri Martin The former quirksome Perrier winner continues his series, which is part stream-of-consciousness sketch show, part stand-up comedy affair, mixed with animation and music. In this one, he turns his attention to the…

Rich Hall 2010 UK tour

14 May 2010

1: Details of Rich Hall’s early days are admirably sketchy, though it’s widely reported that he was born in Virginia in 1954. Rumours that he faked his own death to avoid some debts from his street-performing days are unconfirmed but we can be fairly…

Rich Hall

Cynicism in his well-loved irascible, undermining way

20 Aug 2009

The story of one man and his fly, or rather one fly and his stand-up comedian. Rich Hall, the Montana miserablist best known for his splenetic ranting and copious appearances on UK TV panel shows was beset by an insect (possibly a fly) for the duration…

Rich Hall’s Campfire Stories

Jokes are too few and far between

18 Aug 2009

Call me impatient, but in an hour-long show, or indeed any social situation, a protracted soliloquy about fly fishing is bound to dampen any comic ending if and when it comes. Rich Hall’s tales are no exception to this rule; alongside convincing…

Otis Lee Crenshaw

Season pro stil has fire in his belly

22 Aug 2008

Rich Hall is a man who know show to treat his audience right. While his gigs as plain old Rich Hall back in the mid to late 90s helped forge a ridiculously high standard for the next generation of Fringe stand-ups, it was as C&W legend Otis Lee Crenshaw…

Waverley Care Fringe Fundraising

7 Aug 2008

Waverley Care, Scotland's leading HIV charity, has launched a programme of events in a bid to raise over £25,000 during the Fringe. Adam Hills will host more than 14 of his rib-tickling contemporaries, including Ed Byrne and Rich Hall, at the Festival…

Saddle up

31 Jul 2008

As a posse of spoof country and western acts rides towards the Fringe, Allan Radcliffe asks why songs about rednecks, guns and erections make for sublime comedy

Best Western

Rich Hall's motel life

23 Aug 2007

Although listed under comedy and written/directed by Fringe favourite, comedian Rich Hall, Best Western is far from a light-hearted romp. It looks at two interlinking families in a middle America Motel, where the owners are being forced to sell and the…

Rich Hall

23 Aug 2007

It’s difficult even to imagine a Rich Hall performance being less than entertaining. His intelligent, grumpy, pragmatic worldview is broadcast by way of believable absurdities, anarchic situational vignettes and memorable wordplay. A pity he feels the…

Levelland by Rich Hall

21 Aug 2006

Stand up comedian and writer Rich Hall has penned a projected perception of where his country will be if the path it’s treading remains the same. With gas pushing ten dollars a gallon, the USA is stirring from its paralysis of prosperity, rubbing its…

Rich Hall

8 Aug 2006

The grouchy monkey boy is back having ditched the Stetson and spurs of his Perrier-winning Otis Lee Crenshaw to take up writing plays and being himself. The result is a familiar grump and moan about the world outside and the audience in the room. And…