MARK RUSSELL'S '92 (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedy/musical specials featuring political satirist Mark Russell. In this program, culled from segments of the "Mark Russell Comedy Special" which aired in 1992, Russell entertains an audience-in-the-round at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Buffalo, NY with irreverent song parodies and barbed monologues inspired by current events. Topics of satire include the following: President George Bush's lack of connection to the real world, as evidenced by the disorientation he experienced during a New Hampshire primary visit to a supermarket when he ecountered a common price scanner; candidate Bill Clinton's womanizing; the time Bush vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan during a state dinner; dirty campaigning; the Elvis Presley postage stamp; the furor over Vice President Dan Quayle's attack on television single mother "Murphy Brown"; independent candidate H. Ross Perot's tendency to oversimplify complex issues; the Republican and Democratic conventions; right-wing talk radio and Rush Limbaugh; public concern over the ability of Perot's vice-presidential running mate, retired Navy Vice Admiral James D. Stockdale; Russell's preference for non-jogging presidents; the media's pro-Clinton bias; the impending arrival of the Clinton family in Washington; Sen. Bob Packwood's appearance before the "Senate Select Comittee on Groping and Grabbing"; and predictions for the New Year.
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Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNED-TV
- DATE: December 31, 1992
- RUNNING TIME: 0:27:46
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:34363
- GENRE: Comedy; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Parody; Political satire
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "Mark Russell's '92":
- Lea DiCenso … Producer
- Robert Lower … Director
- For "Mark Russell's Comedy Specials":
- Tony Buttino … Executive Producer
- Wiley F. Hance … Producer
- Allen Williams … Director
- Coniglio, Tami Coleman (See also: Coleman, Tami) … Direction (Misc.), Assistant Director
- Mark Russell … Singer, Host, Performer
- Bill Clinton
- Al Gore
- Limbaugh, Rush (See also: Christie, Jeff)
- Bob Packwood
- H. Ross Perot
- Elvis Presley
- Quayle, J. Danforth "Dan"
- James D. Stockdale