G.K. Palmer Legendary Entertainment Gary, Legendary group, Lengendary Entertainment group Comedy Booker, Comedy Promoter Fraud Doesn't pay his talent Tulsa, Oklahoma
G.K. Palmer hired me to do a comedy type show. We agreed on the price. We agreed he would pay for my hotel. The day of the show I got to the town early. G.K. was already supposed to be there.
I called him and he stated he just left town. He was over 2 hours away. He said he had not booked the hotel yet. I went to the venue to wait on him. I spoke to the venue owners who stated he was a shady character. He didn't show so I was forced to pay for a hotel room so I could get ready for the performance.
I made it back to the venue. He had a band playing. The band played over 15 minutes. My show was supposed to start at 9pm. The band played until 9:15pm. Then G.K. Palmer went up to host the show. He was horrible! He did 15 minutes of so-called stand-up comedy? Then to my surprise he brought up another comedian? This guy wasn't that great either, he did 15 minutes of stand-up. G.K. informed me the comedian just drove in from out of town? So did I? After the comedian got off stage G.K. went back up I thought to introduce me. He stumbled through 20 minutes of painful material he calls stand-up comedy.
I finally got on stage. By this time the crowd of 40 plus dwindled to about 25. I did my show. It wasn't as good as it should have been. By the time I got onstage everyone was too drunk. The audience didn't care. I forged through. I completed my show. G.K. informed me he took a loss at the door and could only pay me 210.00. He said he would go to an atm in the morning to pay me the rest. He said he was staying in the same hotel. He said call him at 9:30 a.m.
The next morning I called G.K. he didn't answer. I then found out he never checked into the hotel. I called some friends of his. They told me he is known for not paying talent. I sent him several text messages and he never returned my calls or texts.
The following night he responded and stated he was a mma fighter and he would kick my a**? I stated I just wanted my money. He said he would meet me the following tuesday. Tuesday came he said something came up. He would wire me the money. He never did. When I tried to Contact him he got nasty threatened me and said he would never pay me. A legit comedy booker never acts this way. I have been in this business a while now. This is the 1st dirtbag I have ran across beware he puts on sub-par shows. He doesnt do the promoting. He doesn't pay his talent!
3 Updates & Rebuttals
PaleHorseRider
Columbus,Georgia,
United States of America
Another UNTRUTH
#4UPDATE Employee
Thu, February 02, 2012
Dude, I just caught you in a lie. You have NEVER been back to Joplin to perform and GK still has the same comedy show just at another venue in Joplin. I saw him in Kansas City a week ago and he showed me the text messages you were sending. He didnt threaten you.....he responded to your threats! Real men dont threaten people....then act like a little girl when someone calls his bluff. And thats exactly what you just did. I read it all! Line for line! So next time you want to pretend to be a victim make sure your audience doesnt know the facts!
General allisimo rodriguez x
Tulsa,Oklahoma,
United States of America
All True
#4Author of original report
Sat, January 21, 2012
First, to the comic who performed, let me say this. While both you and G.K. were on stage the owners of the bar came up to me and stated how horrible it was and people were already leaving at this point. G.K. agreed to have me perform with no openers. One week before the show he called and said he was gonna have one person "do a few minutes" before me to warm up the crowd. The day before he called and said 2 "comics" would perform. After the show every person in the crowd came up to me and said they had a great time despite only one person being hypnotized. I even got two more bookings for christmas parties for people in the audience.
I do shows all over the country. I do well over 300 shows a year. At this time I am writing this I have already performed 20 shows in 2012 its only Jan 20th. I stated the show was horrible. It didn't go the way it was supposed to go. G.K. Palmer(if that is his real name) Didn't do anything he promised. He didn't book and pay for the hotel (which was agreed to) He didn't show up on time. He also didn't pay me the agreed price. I did do my show. It was horrible but it could have been prevented if G.K. had done his job. He didn't promote the show. G.K. told me 2 weeks prior to the show that it was sold out(he lied). After the show he told me he was staying at the same hotel as me and he would go to the atm in the morning and pay me. After not being able to get a hold of him for a whole day he texted me. He didn't even have the guts to call me.
He said in the text he wrecked his car the night before and he would pay me later. He lied. He never paid me. He got ugly when I requested my money and threaten to beat me up? Why? I do not know. No professional booker acts this way. The owners of the bar will not have him back because of all his shadyness. I struggled through a horrible show. He agreed to pay me and he didn't. He lied. If he has treated you well then you are the exeption. I have talked with many comics who have been screwed over by him. Like I said I oerform all the time and this is the first time this has happened to me and it hasn't happened since. I have returned to Joplin to do another show booked by another booker. It went great, because the booker I worked for is a pro. So call the bar owner and ask him why G.K. isn't doing shows there anymore? Before you call me a liar get the facts straight. I have been up front and honest and I have many witnesses to what happened that night. I am not making anything up. Mr. Palmer is a shady booker and a liar not me
PaleHorseRider
Columbus,Georgia,
United States of America
Untruth
#4UPDATE Employee
Wed, January 18, 2012
I was the featured comedian for that night in Missouri. The show did start late, and, I remember having to wait for GK to arrive.
He started the show and I thought he was funny. He's a black guy and he had an all-white crowd laughing. He did a good job. He got the crowd to laugh and introduced the next comic. I didn't do so well. I stumbled over a few jokes and they cut my time early.
GK did a good job overall. The crowd wasn't big. But large enough to share some good laughs. The featured act was terrible. He was a hypnotist. He started out walking around babbling to the crowd. No one understood what he said because the music was to loud.
He got on stage and pulled half of the audience on stage. He went into a 35 minute hypnosis and no one was hypnotized. Let me repeat.....no one! During this time (that we couldn't talk or make noise) the crowd started to get restless. I remember walking outside and GK being furious because he had to give people back their money for not being satisfied.
The hypnotist went on for another 15 minutes or so. He started with 20 people on stage. Only 1 of them was hypnotized, and yes I did say only 1. And I honestly think she was faking.
After the show, GK paid me. He also booked me for another show the following month....he paid me then. I've been watching him have show every weekend for the last 6 months and never heard any complaints about him.
Not saying this person isnt telling the truth. Just saying there something more to the story he isnt telling. If you are just being nice asking for money....why would he just threaten you? Anytime I've ever seen him he has been nice and straightforward. So I call that a lie by omission. There is something more to this guy's story.