2025 Annual Meeting
We invite you to join us on Monday, January 20th, at 7pm for the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Library! Refreshments will be served at 6:30pm.
This extraordinary event will feature acclaimed comedian, actor, writer and musician, Rich Hall as our guest speaker. In addition to a captivating presentation from Rich, there will be a brief business meeting and refreshments. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow library supporters and enjoy an evening of literary inspiration.
Please enter through the Third Street doors.
Meet Rich Hall, Comedian, Actor, Writer and Musician (wikipedia)
“Richard Travis Hall (born June 10, 1954) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor 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.[2]
After winning a Perrier Comedy Award in 2000, using the character of Tennesseean country musician Otis Lee Crenshaw, Hall became popular in the United Kingdom, regularly appearing on QI and similar panel shows. He has created and starred in several series for the BBC, including comedies with Mike Wilmot and documentaries often concerning cinema of the United States. Hall has also maintained a successful stand-up comedy career, as both Crenshaw and himself.
Hall's first professional work was as a writer and performer on the original daytime David Letterman Show (1980) (for which he won the 1981 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Writing)[5] 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. 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 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Hall made a special guest appearance as himself in the Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
In 2011, Hall voiced an Idaho man in Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas.”