There also used to be a show on PBS--someone Baker maybe? Too common a name and too long ago for the Google to ferret it out. Very much in the Tom Lehrer vein but with very occasional exceptions, just not in the same class.
Yes. Not sure where Baker came from other than both being fairly common names. He could be pretty funny and I remember watching him fairly regularly. As far as I can tell, he doesn't seem to have ever gotten around to publishing a "best of" collection (which I would buy) although there are mentions of plans here and there.
It's interesting that Russell himself is 85. I always saw him as "the next generation Lehrer", but he is actually the same generation.