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}} Richard "Rich" Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer and musician. ==Early life and career== Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He is part Cherokee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QI – Season 2 – Episode 12 )〕 Early in his career, he performed as a street comedian with a suitcase and stand, traveling the college circuit, and performing impromptu skits for gathering crowds. He attended college at Western Carolina University.〔http://magazine.wcu.edu/2013/08/the-bare-facts/〕 Hall's first professional work was as a writer and performer on the original David Letterman Show (1980), and the sketch comedy TV series ''Fridays'' from 1980 until 1982. After the end of ''Fridays'', Hall co-wrote and starred in the satirical comedy series ''Not Necessarily the News'' from 1983 until 1990 where he coined the term "sniglet" to describe newly-created words and collected and published several volumes of books of them. Matt Groening has described him as the inspiration for Moe Szyslak from ''The Simpsons''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The real life Moe )〕 He was also a regular on ''Saturday Night Live'' for the show's tenth season (1984–1985), becoming the only ''Fridays'' cast member to be an ''SNL'' cast member (Larry David, while also a ''Fridays'' cast member who went on to work for ''SNL'' was hired as a writer and only appeared onscreen as an extra). In 1986, Hall had his own Showtime channel special, ''Vanishing America'', which was turned into a book with the same title. He hosted a talk show during The Comedy Channel's 1990–91 season, titled ''Rich Hall's Onion World''. In the United States, he has appeared several times on American talk shows such as ''Late Show with David Letterman'' and ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. Hall was previously a writer and on-air contributor on ''The David Letterman Show'', Letterman's morning show that aired on NBC in 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rich Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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