About Doug Mulray
Douglas John Mulray (1 December 1951 – 30 March 2023) was an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. Nicknamed Uncle Doug, he grew up in Dee Why on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Mulray was well known for his bawdy humour and charismatic larrikinism, with his style of free quips, parodies and "unbridled naughtiness". == Radio career == Mulray started his early years as a salesman traveling in Europe before his father, a lawyer, suggested a career in broadcasting. Mulray began his radio career at 2AD in Armidale in September 1975, after taking a broadcasting course at the Digamae (Rod Muir's) Radio School. After six months he moved to Central Coast station 2GO in Gosford. During the mid-1970s he worked on 3AW Melbourne with a program called "Mulray & The Man". In the late 1970s, he started a permanent job in Sydney with the newly formed Australian Broadcasting Corporation's alternative rock station 2JJ, in what would evolve in Triple J, where he built up a sizeable following. In 1982 he was poached by a new station, Triple M. Mulray served as breakfast host, which lifted the ratings share from 2.6 per cent to a staggering 18 per cent. He was known for his fictional characters, including Madam Zenda, who made outlandish comedic predictions about the future; Jack Africa, a man permanently paranoid who was convinced that chooks were out to get him; the Prime Mincer, a parody of the then Australian PM Bob Hawke; and Gloria, who was based on rival broadcaster Alan Jones.
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