Deadpan-style comedian Rich Hall takes stage in Polebridge

A regular on the international comedy scene Rich Hall will take the stage for Comedy in the Woods at Polebridge’s Home Ranch Bottoms on Friday, Aug. 11.

Hall is an award-winning comedian, writer, documentary maker, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the late 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of networks in series such as “Fridays,” “Not Necessarily the News,” “Otis Lee Crenshaw” and “Saturday Night Live.”

Gates for the ticketed event open at 5 p.m. for dinner exclusively for ticket holders and the show will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and available online and at the Home Ranch Bottoms.

“We have been having a blast bringing music events to the bottoms and thought why not bring the first ever Comedy in the Woods to the remote North Fork valley,” Home Ranch Bottoms partner Danny Freund said. “Rich brings the laughs, guests bring the lawn chairs, and we’ll provide the rest.”

Hall quit his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service decades ago and hasn’t looked back. Spending most of his time in London, he likes to lay into his fellow countrymen and life across the pond at every opportunity.

Hall’s critically acclaimed grouchy, deadpan style has established him as a master of absurdist irony and the king of rapid-fire wit. The award-winning Montana native is renowned for his expertly crafted tirades and quick-fire banter with audiences. A comedian whose plain-spoken growling indignation and acerbic observations have an unerring talent for hitting his targets with precision every time, leaving his audience hanging on every word and winning him fans all over the globe. Hall has been described as a transatlantic messenger lampooning each country he visits with his common sense, and he is no less harsh to his homeland.

Hall is well known in the United States for appearing and writing on the original “The David Letterman Show” for which he won two Emmy Awards. He was a writer and cast member on the 10th season of “Saturday Night Live” and has appeared several times on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

He has had steady appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, and every major comedy club in the UK, as well as QI and the BBC.

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