MARK RUSSELL COMEDY SPECIAL (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedy/musical specials featuring political satirist Mark Russell. In this program, 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: the divorce of Donald and Ivana Trump; President George Bush's trip to a drug conference in Colombia; Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry's drug-related arrest; a bishop in Albany who claims that New York Governor Mario Cuomo will go to hell for his position on abortion rights; the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, which resulted in President Manuel Noriega's arrest; the fiscal 1991 U.S. budget; the annual State of the Union address; the ephemeral nature of America's so-called "peace dividend"; the "death of communism"; and the 1989 revolt in Romania which resulted in the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Acquisition and cataloging of this program was made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNED-TV
- DATE: February 14, 1990
- RUNNING TIME: 0:27:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:34683
- GENRE: Comedy; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Parody; Political satire; Satire
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1975-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Buttino, Tony (See also: Buttino, Anthony) … Executive Producer
- Wiley F. Hance … Producer
- Gary V. Reinbolt … Director
- Tami Coleman … Direction (MIsc.), Assistant Director
- Mark Russell … Performer
- Jack Mahl … Announcer
- Marion Barry
- George Bush
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Mario M. Cuomo
- Manuel Noriega
- Donald Trump
- Ivana Trump