His Presenting Mark Russell, c1980: t.p. (Mark Russell) jkt. (humorist; b. in Buffalo, N.Y., but has lived in Wash., D.C. for many yrs.)

WW Am., 2000 (Mark Russell; comedian; b. Aug. 23, 1932, Buffalo)

Internet movie database, Aug. 6, 2003 (Mark Russell; actor, writer)

New York times, 31 Mar. 2023: in an obituary on page B12 (Mark Russell; born Joseph Marcus Ruslander on Aug. 23, 1932 in Buffalo [N.Y.], died Thursday [Mar. 30, 2023 in Washington, D.C.], aged 90; a master of political satire who stood at a star-spangled piano and kept the cognoscenti in stitches for six decades with musical parodies and professional tomfoolery that tweaked politicians and captured the silly side of Washington; at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., [Russell] packed in the crowds for years, wrote a nationally syndicated humor column, and became one of the nation's best-known comedians)