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."):
https://www.thewrap.com/mark-russell-comedian-political-satirist-dies-at-90/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7237215
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