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topic of his calls. His wife's name is Sharon Gene, his son is Raymond, and his step-daughter is Lateesha. He was married at least

Roy Dam Mercer (also known as R.D. Mercer or R.D. "By God" Mercer) is a fictional character voiced by Brent Douglas on radio station KMOD in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The comedy act, which serves as a vehicle for practical jokes over the telephone, was first signed to Capitol Records in 1996. As of 2007, sixteen comedy albums have been released on the Capitol and Virgin labels.Roy D. Mercer's persona is that of an obtuse, slippery-talking redneck. He calls people on the telephone, who are invariably set up by their coworkers, friends, or family members. Mercer claims that the person (or someone affiliated with the person, such as a family member or employee) created some sort of problem (sold faulty goods, said or did something offensive to Mercer or one of his family members, etc.). Roy speaks with an exaggerated Oklahoma accent to increase the comic effect. He says that he is coming down to "pick up a check", typically for about $200, to get some satisfaction. An entertaining verbal argument ensues, and when he is not accommodated to his full satisfaction (which never occurs), he begins to threaten physical intimidation. This invariably includes Roy asking his victim "how big a boy are ya'" and some variation of a pronouncement that an "ass-whuppin'" is going to occur. Eventually, Douglas, along with his partner Phil Stone, drops the masquerade and announces the practical joke.Mercer has a fictional wife and children who are often a topic of his calls. His wife's name is Sharon Gene, his son is Raymond, and his step-daughter is Lateesha. He was married at least once before, to a woman named Inez Roundtree. His great uncle Jesse Mercer, now dead, was a war hero. Roy's father, Owen, was a long-haul trucker, but is also deceased. The family has a dog named Bon Jovi but lost several other pets due to mishaps, among them Raymond's piano-playing hamster Liberace, who got "squarshed" by a 20-pound weight, Lateesha's cat, Meow Tse Tung, and a Yorkie named Sgt. Yorkie. The family currently lives in a trailer-home (which is infested with, among other things, cockroaches and bad-apple-induced farts). A little-known fact is that his middle name, Dam, comes from the Hoover Dam ("it ain't a cursin'!"); this is revealed in "Ceramic Deer", an unreleased skit that was only played on KMOD radio.The skits typically work so well because Roy's claims are not readily verifiable, especially in the immediate sense. Thus, it's difficult for his victims to prove that his story didn't happen. For example, when Roy accuses a coffee shop of giving caffeinated coffee to Raymond (who apparently has a nervous disorder, and can only drink decaf), they can't prove that it never happened. Sometimes, victims demand proof of his story; in response, he either offers the obligatory ass-whupping or something absurd like digging up his dead pet and bringing it to them.The pranks are also made more believable by Brent & Phil's uncanny ability to add depth & realism to the story. This is achieved by providing more background details, small and large, than normal. In one skit, talking to a man at the Oklahoma News Network, Mercer claims that the network ran a story about his sister getting drunk and getting into a fist fight at a bowling alley. In another skit, the victim was professional wrestler Bill Goldberg, who, after being accused of signing Roy's son's head with a permanent marker and being chided that pro wrestling is "fake," offered to show Mercer how fake it was, adding "I'll knock your fuckin' head off."Suggestions of PlagiarismThere is evidence that much of the repertoire and characters, including the now famous "It ain't nothin' for me to whoop a man's ass," claimed to be invented by Roy D. Mercer were actually conceived by Jim Andes near Knoxville, TN who acted under the alias Lee Roy Mercer in the mid 1970s. Andes had a hobby of making and recording redneck prank phone calls for fun and a friend of his made copies and distributed them to his friends. Those copies were duplicated and spread virally throughout the southeast where they became known as the "Huh! I'll Whoop Yer Ass!" tapes. Those recordings were later signed and distributed under the WarHead Records imprint in the late 1980s..

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