Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Kyle Kinane Claims He Was Stiffed by Sioux Falls, SD Booker
(UPDATED BELOW)
Kyle Kinane is putting out a public service announcement.
A few follow-up tweets fill in some details of the story:
He confirmed that the fellow he refers to looks like this
He confirmed that Abrahamson is "the same guy that stiffed JD Povorose," (as identified by @kfleminem).
He reported (we can gather) that the amount was $1,183.00 (plus the amount of Kinane's hotel stay).
Abrahamson's side of the story is nowhere to be found. In fact, his online presence is pretty minimal. A Facebook account under his name has been removed (screenshot of the cached page). His MySpace page is available only to friends. The only YouTube videos to show up with his name were posted by "mrstandup1978", who promised "I will be posting my sets as I get them…" but whose account has been deleted.
It's not clear that all those missing links are Abrahamson, but he is looking a lot like a baboon right now.
(UPDATE)
Kinane has posted the following statement on his webpage:
Kyle Kinane is putting out a public service announcement.
A few follow-up tweets fill in some details of the story:
He confirmed that the fellow he refers to looks like this
He confirmed that Abrahamson is "the same guy that stiffed JD Povorose," (as identified by @kfleminem).
He reported (we can gather) that the amount was $1,183.00 (plus the amount of Kinane's hotel stay).
Abrahamson's side of the story is nowhere to be found. In fact, his online presence is pretty minimal. A Facebook account under his name has been removed (screenshot of the cached page). His MySpace page is available only to friends. The only YouTube videos to show up with his name were posted by "mrstandup1978", who promised "I will be posting my sets as I get them…" but whose account has been deleted.
It's not clear that all those missing links are Abrahamson, but he is looking a lot like a baboon right now.
(UPDATE)
Kinane has posted the following statement on his webpage:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO TOURING COMICS: Avoid working for Sioux Falls booker Brian Eugene Abrahamson at all costs. He will not pay. He is not a sad-sack down on his luck as he’d like you to believe. From what I’ve discovered after the fact, he books people with the promise of a set amount but has no intention of paying them the agreed flat fee. I was lucky that I wasn’t relying on the promised guaranteed amount for my bills, but others haven’t been so lucky. Brian Eugene Abrahamson needs to be ousted from booking comedy shows and the best way I know how is to take to public forums.
Feel free to repost this in any comic forums you utilize to warn others that you WILL NOT BE PAID if you work for Brian Eugene Abrahamson. Or give me the names of any viable comic forums and I will be happy to contact them myself.
Abrahamson has deactivated his Facebook and Twitter accounts, as he’s done in the past when comics have rallied against him for the same reason. He will terminate any means of communication until the trouble blows over, then resurface to book more comics not aware of his scam. It is my intention to make sure that doesn’t happen again. As I’ve said, put the word out that Brian Eugene Abrahamson doesn’t pay his comics the amount they’ve agreed upon, therefore he has no business working in a promotional capacity. To clarify, he works independently and is not affiliated with any clubs in the area of Sioux Falls. As a matter of fact, he is banned from his hometown club, to the best of my knowledge. So if that says anything…
Thanks for listening. Spread the word if you are a comic and understand that if you manipulate someone and mess with their source of income, it shouldn’t be tolerated.
Kyle Kinane
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