AUBURN | Imagine if it were possible that an old-fashioned newsreel and a Borscht Belt comedian bore a lovechild. Such an outrageous union might describe the political comedy of legend Mark Russell.

Alison Kaplan fell for Tom Lehrer's parody songs long before she met Mark Russell. Then she fell for Russell's parodies – and for him. When word came this week of Lehrer's passing, at 97, Alison ...

Political satirist Mark Russell, the longtime host of public TV’s long-running “Mark Russell Comedy Specials,” will perform at 2 p.m. May 18 in the Central Library auditorium, 1 Lafayette Square.

The next time I saw Mr. Russell was at a subsequent Tucson Festival of Books. I wanted to connect him to humorist Dave Barry and “SNL” writer Alan Zweibel, two authors whose joint appearance I was ...

Thanksgiving is a gory and timely new horror-comedy one-shot from writer Mark Russell of Flintstones and Billionaire Island, artist Mauricet, letterer Rob Steen and publisher Ahoy Comics. Mark Russell ...