Doug Drexler was a notable humanoid comedian.
In 2365, Data attempted to locate a comedian to help him better understand the concept of "what is funny?". Gray was among the holodeck program files that were contained aboard the USS Enterprise-D. The program list code for this comedian was EQ-45932. (TNG-R: "The Outrageous Okona", okudagram)
This character was named for longtime Trek staff member Doug Drexler, a consultant to the TNG remastering team.
In the remastered version of the episode, this character replaced Heidi Julian.