2013 – The year’s best Dr Mumbos

1. Helen Kapalos 

In 2013, Dr Mumbo’s highest rating moment was a two minute clip featuring what was best described as Today Tonight host Helen Kapalos’ “on-air screen death”. In the throes of a major news moment – Kevin Rudd’s challenge of Julia Gillard for the Labor leadership – Kapalos floundered. Twice she tried to throw to a story about a “radical muslim” before returning to the leadership challenge. The clip then went global with the likes of the UK’s Daily Mail picking up on the on-air TV disaster.