As an added treat, four of Roy's "Fishin' Report" radio shorts are included here for more of the funniest redneck on the airwaves. Finally, Brent and Phil let everybody off the hook with a huge belly laugh. The unsuspecting patsies usually buys the story hook, line and sinker as Mercer pushes their buttons with demands for monetary retribution and his favorite threat to "whup their ass!" Roy's mispronunciations and redneck temper make for some of the most hilarious prank calls in the history of drive-time radio.On this fifth volume of their hit comedy series, the boys ensnare their victims with a phone call from Roy, who's hoppin' mad about everything from a stolen tape deck to a dog that acts like a sissy. The creation of radio jocks Brent Douglas and Phil Stone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mercer is the best leg-puller south of the Mason Dixon line. Recording information: KMOD Studios, Tulsa, OK.Recorded at KMOD Studios, Tulsa, Oklahoma.Mercer character in 1990 before his official creation in 1993, and that the name was coincidental. For 30 years and until very recently, Douglas and his late partner Phil Stone were the morning DJs at KMOD-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His name is Brent Douglas, and his comic persona is a rustic, angry fellow named Roy D. John Bean died from cancer in his early 30's in 1984 Stone and Douglas said that they originally invented their Roy D. The funniest man in America is someone youve probably never heard of. Mercer using many of the former Leroy Mercer's lines.
Many of his calls to businesses involved complaining about a product. There are many parallels and similarities to the calls, with Roy D. Mercer was a prank phone caller, much like the Jerky Boys, but in hillbilly fashion. Leroy Mercer, voiced by John Bean, also called individuals and businesses threatening an "ass-whuppin". Mercer was inspired by "Leroy Mercer," a character created in Tennessee by Knoxville resident John Bean, who made prank calls circulated by hand-to-hand tape exchange in the early 1980s. John Bean's "Leroy Mercer" character of the 1980s Phil Stone died on November 21, 2012, 40 days after the radio show ended, from causes related to heart disease at the age of 57. Step three: Have the clerk from the first restaurant read back. On October 12, 2012, the Phil and Brent Show ended its 27-year run with KMOD-FM radio. Step one: Call up a restaurant and make an elaborate order. Many of the recipients of the calls are suggested by their friends who supply Mercer with information about the potential recipients. Mercer has been described as speaking with "a mushy-mouthed Southern drawl" and his style of comedy has been described as "not exactly obscene. In most of the sketches, Mercer will demand that the recipient of a call pay him money for some incident, and if the recipient refuses, he will threaten them with violence (usually an "ass-whuppin'").
A Virgin Records Nashville executive noted that Mercer's early albums managed to sell between 250,000 and 300,000 copies, primarily due to word of mouth, without any promotion to consumers or radio airplay of the album tracks. Mercer compilation albums have been released on the Capitol and Virgin Records labels. By 1997, Capitol Records Nashville began issuing the sketches on compact disc. Originally, the prank call sketches were a part of KMOD's morning show. Initially, they used the character on comedy sketches for the radio station. Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, disc jockeys on KMOD-FM, a rock radio station, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, created the Roy D.
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