Hello Everybody,
Mark Russell has left the stage, at age 90, along with his
dearly beloved piano. Nobody could play it like him, or ever will.
Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90
Source: Washington Post
Mark Russell, Washington’s social-political satirist and stand-up
comic who spoofed, teased and laughed at celebrities, politicians,
politics and popular culture for more than 50 years from behind his star-spangled piano, died March 30 at his home in D.C. He was 90.
The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said his wife,
Alison Russell.
From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration through
the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked
fun at the foibles and flaws of the well-known, the pompous and the
powerful in monologues replete with pithy one-liners and musical
ditties. He called himself “a political cartoonist for the blind.”
Long an institution on Washington’s stages and in hotel bars, Mr.
Russell gained a national following on public television, where for
30 years he made regular broadcasts. In the 1980s and 1990s, he took
his show on the road, appearing live in public and corporate venues
in cities and towns across the United States.
In addition, he wrote syndicated observations for newspaper op-ed
pages, where he delivered such quips as “a broken campaign promise to
change the way Washington works is exactly the way Washington works.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/30/mark-russell -satirist-pianist-dead/
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