Mark Russell
Mark Russell
Mark Ruslander, known professionally as Mark Russell, is an American political satirist and comedian best known for his parody music, which he performs while accompanying himself on piano...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 August 1932
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
opponents politician libel
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
people faces television
People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
trouble jerry knows
You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.
fun writing civilization
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.
baseball football games
You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.
brain republican democrat
You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!
sacred expenses
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
fun writing thinking
I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you're just getting mad and it's not going to be fun for anybody.
heart people break
Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.
sports athlete games
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.
quiet silent audience
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
hippie hair long
You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.
guy making-love way
A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.
racing stripes way
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.