sed hates me

Silly sed question. And me without my sed book handy. :(

$ echo sed-hates-me
sed-hates-me

$ echo sed-hates-me | sed 's/me/`whoami`/'
sed-hates-`whoami`

Doh! Shouldn't this work? I was expecting output like this:

sed-hates-kevin

...Kevin
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