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Mark Russell (born August 23 1932) is an American
comedian, pianist and singer, based in Buffalo,
New York. For more than 25 years he has appeared
on the American public broadcasting network PBS at
least twice a year. He is known for playing the
piano and singing in between periods of talking,
and for making new words for popular melodies,
which are meant to express the political situation
that he is talking about. Russell criticizes the
United States Democratic Party and the United
States Republican Party fairly equally, and also
criticizes third party and independent
politicians, e.g. Ralph Nader. He has often been
compared to Tom Lehrer.

Russell has often been asked the question, "Do you
have any writers?" His standard response is "Oh,
yes...I have 535 writers. 100 in the Senate and
435 in the House of Representatives!"

A couple of examples of Mark Russell's style of
humor:
*Early in the Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration,
there was a news story about a power problem at
the White House which was causing the lights to
dim, etc. Russell remarked, "Of course, the last
power shortage we had at the White House lasted
four years!"
*In talking about Reagan's "trickle down" theory
of economics, Russell said the way it works is
that "Money held by someone like Nelson
Rockefeller will trickle down... trickle down...
trickle down... to Jay Rockefeller!"


==External links==
*http://www.markrussell.net/ Mark Russell home
page