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 1991, 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: merchandise inspired by Operation Desert Storm; Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein; Kitty Kelly's tell-all book on Nancy Reagan; Los Angeles police chief Darryl Gates; political correctness in American culture; Mikhail Gorbachev and the shifting of power in the Soviet Union; the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings; the House of Representatives bank scandal; the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith; and the challenge to President George Bush by conservative firebrand Patrick J. Buchanan.