Jay and the Doctor are the on-air names of Australian radio duo Jason Whalley and Lindsay McDougall, on radio station Triple J.

Best known as members of punk band Frenzal Rhomb, they performed occasional late-night shifts on Triple J until 2004. They temporarily replaced Chris Taylor and Craig Reucassel for six weeks in late 2004 while The Chaser Decides covered the federal election.

On 26 November 2004, Jay and the Doctor were announced as the hosts of the Breakfast Show in 2005. The announcement was highly built up by incumbent hosts Adam & Wil.

They can be heard on Triple J from 6am to 9am, weekdays.

Segments

Some of their on-air antics include the following segments:

• Happy Monday - Jay and The Doctor try to brighten up Monday mornings by playing an infuriating songrepeatedly. On August 29th 2005, they initiated "The Happiest Monday Ever"[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jayandthedoctor/listen/mp3s/happymonday.mp3 prior to which they encouraged listeners to falsely appear sick in order to take the day off work and spend the morning listening to them broadcast from Jason's bed and other parts of his house.

• Coxy's Segment - An agony aunt section featuring Andrew Cox of the popular Melbourne indie band The Fauves, who helps give advice to selected listeners that call in with a personal problem that needs dealing with.

• Dreamweaver- Listeners call up and describe recent dreams to Jason and he interprets them. Jason often parodies cold reading. At some point the segment became speedweaver, where Jason gives a short one or two sentence response before quickly moving onto the next caller. Then it became screamweaver, where Jason screams his response.

• The Friday F**kwit- Jay and the doctor nominate a person, feeling, object or news in the news that week who they think deserves particular recognition. To play up the humour, it's not always obvious and the reasoning may be quite strange. The award can not be received twice by the same person.

• Under the weather sessions- A well-known musician will teach Jay and the Doctor how to play one of their songs. Originally this was to play in the background of one of the weather readings, hence the name. But now the weather is often sung by the guest.

Skits

Like several other Triple J programs with comedic talent, Jay and the Doctor produce short skits that are played during their program as well as at other times of day.

Series

• Battalion 666- An increasingly bizarre radio serial about "HMS Beelzebub", a fictitious ship of the Royal Navy staffed entirely of satanists. They also happen to be famous entertainers, impersonated by Jason and Lindsay and 'quoted celebrities' (Examples include Russell Crowe, Moby and Billy Corgan). The series originated from the story that the Royal Navy would allow practicing satanist crewmembers onboard its ships.

• Space Goat- A serial involving a goat in outer space. Parodies early-era sci-fi radio serials, by having a large starting and ending narration, with the 'actual' episode consisting of a single audio clip of a goat, roughly a second long. The goat sound never changes.

• 7:30 Resort- A send-up of typically-biased "on-the-scene" news reporting. This involves head anchor "Jason Jay" Whalley delivering the headlines poolside at a tropical resort, while on-the-scene reporter "Radios" The Doctor becomes involved with the situation in a comic manner.

• Musical Challenge- Claiming that they themselves prove that musicians shouldn't talk, Jay and the Doctor propose an alternative method for interviewing musicians; by having them respond with their instruments. Joe Satriani puts in an exceptional performance with his electric guitar^*.

• Gamblers Anonymous Help Line- A parody of a gamblers help line. Jason bullies the desperate callers into continuing gambling to win their money back.

• Flack- A parody of Triple J's current affairs program, Hack.

• Steve Tankerfield's Trafficking Report- A parody of traffic reports given from a helicopter, but reporting on drug trafficking.

• Swamp Donkey- A serial spun off from Space Goat that allows listners to submit their own scripts using a predefined sound.

One-offs

• Interview and Interrogation^*- Following allegatons by Mamdouh Habib of mistreatment while he was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, certain government ministers and intelligence officials were contradicting each other over whether he was interviewed or interrogated. Jay and the Doctor apply the same level of ambiguity to interviewing musical guests.

• Caring Through Swearing^*- Jay and the Doctor claim it's better to swear at a child than to hit them.

• Asia vs The rest of the world^*- Following the "Asia vs The rest of the world" charity cricket match, Jay and the Doctor propose a follow-up; "Asia vs The rest of the world: The War!" In the interest of humanity and charity.

• Tsuna-you Tsuna-me^*- A song by Jay and the Doctor about donations made to help the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, claiming we do it "so we can feel good about ourselves". This song caused some controversy, at least on conservative talk-back radio stations.

External links

• Jay and the Doctor program page on the ABC site. Includes selected highlights and pieces from the show which can be downloaded in MP3 format.

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