Mercer character in 1990 before his official creation in 1993, and that the name was coincidental. John Bean died from cancer in his early 30's in 1984 Stone and Douglas said that they originally invented their Roy D. Mercer using many of the former Leroy Mercer's lines. There are many parallels and similarities to the calls, with Roy D. 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. On October 12, 2012, the Phil and Brent Show ended its 27-year run with KMOD-FM radio.
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. A couple of notable people that Douglas and Stone had called were Bill Goldberg, and Chris Bray, the production manager for Steppenwolf.Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, disc jockeys on KMOD-FM, a rock radio station, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, created the Roy D. The first volume of country comedian Roy D.
Mercer has been described as speaking with "a mush-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 "***-whuppin'").
Initially, they used the character on comedy sketches for the radio station. Hear the prank calls made by two Tulsa, Oklahoma radio hosts as Roy D. Every day at 5:15 they would play one of his prank phone calls on the radio, and I made my best effort to listen to them.īrent Douglas and Phil Stone, disc jockeys on KMOD-FM, a rock radio station, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, created the Roy D. He was a fictional character played by a radio DJ in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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