titled "Steve Garvey Celebrity Skiing". From 2015 onwards, Hall has lent his voice as Captain Taylor in the ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go, with the character first appearing in the episode "Relic". The character made further appearances in show's second and third season. Hall is a frequent guest panellist on the British panel show QI, having appeared 25 times on the show. He has also won more episodes than any other guest panellist (10). Otis Lee Crenshaw In 2000, he won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, under the guise of his own grizzled uncle, Otis Lee Crenshaw, the much-convicted country music singer. He has released several albums, including How Do We Do It? Volume! in 2003, and a concert video, as this character. The first album, London Not Tennessee, in 2001, was recorded on the first comedy tour, and includes two duets on stage with US singer Catherine Porter. In 2004, he published a book of the man's memoirs, entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society, and in 2007 he finished a screenplay for a film based on the book, written for the director Mel Smith. In 2008, Hall toured two stand-up shows around the UK: Rich Hall Autumn Tour 2008 played around 45 dates and headlined as his alter-ego in a show entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw and Band, with Rich Hall listed as a "special guest". He subsequently toured a version of this show throughout the UK and Ireland in 2009, with longtime sidekick Myron T. Buttram (guitarist and pedal steel player, Rob Childs) and Lonesome Dave (banjoist and guitarist, David Lindsay) appearing at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the 2009 Melbourne Comedy festival. The band were originally credited as The Black Liars, and were renamed as The Honky Tonk A**holes when joined by Horst Furst II (bassist, Nigel Portman Smith) and drummer Mark Hewitt. Musical and literary career Filmography Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985) – Street Punk #1 (uncredited) One Crazy Summer (1986) – Wilbur Million Dollar Mystery (1987) – Slaughter Buzzard C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989) – Stan The Lives of the Saints (2006) – Club Performer Arthur Christmas (2011) – Idaho Man (voice) TV Vanishing America (1986) Monsters, episode 15, "Their Divided Self" (1989) Rich Hall's TV Dinner Party (1990) Rich Hall's Fishing Show (2003) Rich Hall's Cattle Drive (2006) Rich Hall's How the West