A Tribute To Sam Kinison

It all started back in 1998, when he took his

family to Disney. He was a

hard working man, needed a vacation and

decided to take the family away

to Disney in Orlando, Florida. He decides to

shave his beard because of how

hot it is in Florida. When they get there he

decides to buy a Mickey Mouse

beret, and wear the beret in place of his baseball

cap. He walks through t

he park and people start to scream and yell “hey,

you look like

Sam Kinison!” He was thinking “what the hell

are these people talking about?

” Then a guy who was on a pay phone, gets off

the phone and runs up to me

and asked if I do a tribute to Sam, and if I had

ever been on the Howard Stern

Show. He replied “no”, and the guy says “well

you should, because you are

a dead ringer of Sam Kinison”. After a week of

having fun with this he starts

to watch all of Sam’s stand up acts and Sam’s

style, and thinks “hey, I can do this”.

After a few weeks he calls the funny bone in

Pittsburgh, PA to sign up for open

mic night and gives it a shot. Once he got on

stage and broke into his Kinison

act the crowd went crazy! That gave him the

confidence to do it a second time,

but the second time didn't fare so well. He froze

and walked off the stage just

a minute into his act. He went home that night

and thought “man, what am

I doing? I can’t do this.” His second stage

appearance really knocked the

confidence out of him and he felt like giving up.

After a while his friends

and family started to ask why he would quit

doing something he is obviously

good at. They kept pressing into him that he can

do it and if he keeps at it,

it would pay off. He was blessed to have that

kind of support from his family

and friends. He realized this, and not much

later, he was back on the stage

again and hasn't quit since. He has shared his

talent at comedy clubs

all over the country and people love it. Not only

does he get to share his act

with people that may have never had a chance to

see the real Sam Kinison

, he gets to interact daily with people that knew

the real Sam on a personal

level. The same people that knew the real Sam

even tell him he is the number

one Sam Kinison impersonator in the world!

Every time he takes the stage

he gets better and better. He watches all of

Sam’s old shows on a regular basis

to pick up on little things. "Its a different life

that I’m living now compared to

the way it use to be," He says "I can’t go

anywhere without people screaming

“AHHH, AHHHH or saying, “look, its Sam

Kinison!". Everyone he runs

into says he is going to be big some day. If you

have never seen

Sam Kinison live, then you've got to catch one of

his shows,

it is unlike anything you have seen. If you ever

get a chance to see him,

whether its at a show or maybe some car or bike

show, or just hanging

out somewhere, don't be shy, just walk up and

talk to him, and ask for

one of his signed autograph pictures, he'll love

to talk with you.