Political Comic Mark Russell Dies at 90

[Mark Jeffries]

For decades at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, from 1975 to 2004 in a series of PBS specials taped at producing station WNED in Buffalo and in a recurring role on the NBC proto-reality show "Real People," Mark Russell took aim at everyone in Washington with his one-liners and musical parodies (sung from behind a red-white-and-blue grand piano)--although today he might be looked upon as hacky, among those responding to his death were Jon Stewart (“Mark Russell was a DC institution who did the hardest thing a comic can do… relentlessly and righteously mock his neighbors.”) and George Carlin's daughter Kelly ("It’s one thing to have a great comedian mind and another to be able to craft a song at the drop of a hat, but to combine them to reveal the endless bulls--t of our nation’s politics makes one an American treasure."):

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