Mike Randall (entertainer)

Michael E. Randall (born November 2, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, meteorologist and reporter from Buffalo, New York.

[3] Prior to 1983, Randall worked at WFSB in Hartford and WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, as well as a brief stint as a commercial spokesman[4] for, among others, the New York Lottery in 1978.

Randall joined WKBW-TV in 1983 as a feature reporter, filling a role previously held by Don Polec.

[3] From 1992 through 1993, Randall was named "Captain" of the children's television program Rocketship 7, on which he appeared with his wife and son.

[4] Upon Jolls's retirement in 1999, Randall was named chief meteorologist and moved to the station's evening newscasts.

In 2016, Randall wrote Shoot the Weatherman, a short two-hander one-act play in which a lawyer takes a meteorologist hostage for making an inaccurate forecast.