Mark Russell (born August 23, 1932), is an American political satirist and comedian best known for his parody music, which he performs while accompanying himself on piano.
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.
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.
I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.
I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
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.
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
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.
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.