Longtime political humorist Mark Russell, the wise-cracking piano player who skewered Washington's elite with pithy one-liners and upbeat tunes, has died. He was 90.
The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of complications from prostate cancer, his wife, Alison Russell, told the Washington Post.
Russell, a master of political satire with a rapier wit, was best known for his "Mark Russell Comedy Specials" that aired on PBS from 1975 to 2004 and for dispensing nonpartisan humor — set to music behind a flag-draped piano.
