Barry Mitchell Biography
Barry Mitchell is a comedian, musician, and television producer from Brooklyn. Mitchell is also known as “Accordion Guy” to viewers of ABC-TV’s offbeat late-night news program World News Now.
Barry Mitchell Age
He was born on March 6, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Barry is 71 years old as of March 2023.
Barry Mitchell Wife- Spouse
He hasn’t made his relationship public. His marital status, whether married, engaged, divorced, or single, is unknown.
Barry Mitchell Career
In 1992, he began contributing topical song parodies to the show, and eventually became its traveling feature reporter, doing celebrity interviews and scouring the country for unusual stories and people. Primetimer.com named him one of “The 25 Most Impactful People In Late Night TV History” in August 2021. Mitchell created and performed the tongue-in-cheek “World News Polka” in 1992, which became World News Now’s characteristic closing song. In the mid-1970s, Mitchell played accordion in wedding bands on Long Island, NY, and later worked as a radio newswriter for WHLI-AM. He briefly worked for NBC Radio News and Information Service in Rockefeller Center in the late 1970s before embarking on a career as a stand-up comedian.
Mitchell’s Polka has been covered by a variety of artists, including an Elvis impersonator, an all-ukulele ensemble, and a water-harpist. Kermit The Frog of The Muppets sang a memorable Polka duet with Mitchell on accordion and Kermit on banjo in June 2015: “I hear they watch us in the Swamp and think that we’re all right/Well, it sure beats croaking in the middle of the night.” Mitchell’s remarkable impersonation of Woody Allen got him appearances in TV ads and sketches on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the 1980s. In the interim, he has written monologues for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Fox’s Comic Strip Live’s Wayne Cotter.
He was a member of the writing team for That Was The Week That Was, ABC’s brief effort to resurrect the 1963 BBC satirical series as a section of Primetime Live in 2004. Mitchell has been a producer/reporter for CUNY-TV, the City University of New York’s public affairs cable channel, which is available in the five boroughs of New York City on Channel 75 and online at tv.cuny.edu, since May 2005. In 2012, he received a New York Emmy Award. Mitchell has been a segment producer and anchor of CUNY-TV’s monthly magazine program “Simply Science” since June 2019.
Barry Mitchell’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million USD dollars.