Russell Peters
“I will be looking at an Armani shirt or a high end designer and flip the tag and I see made in India, I’m stuck with a real dilemma. Do i buy this shirt or do I call my uncle. I wonder if he knows where this factory is.”
Biography-Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born September 29, 1970) is an Indo-Canadian stand-up comic and actor.
Peters began performing in Toronto, Ontario in 1989. He has since also performed in the UK, Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark, South Africa, the Caribbean, Vietnam, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sweden, India, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United States among other places.
He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards, the Canadian television awards. He has also been nominated for Best Male Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Peters has been featured at such shows as Montreal’s Just for Laughs (Juste Pour Rire) Comedy Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. He hosted the Canada Day Comedy Festival 2006.
His comedy special Russell Peters: Outsourced, aired on Comedy Central on August 16, 2006. The DVD version features his uncensored performance. The DVD has been popular, especially in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies. Outsourced remained on the National DVD Chart over one and a half years after release.
Peters’ DVD/CD combo Russell Peters: Red, White, and Brown was recorded on February 2, 2008 at The WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden. Peters and his brother self-produced and financed Red, White and Brown.
Peters also currently produces and stars on the radio situation comedy series, Monsoon House, on CBC Radio One.
Peters’ latest DVD/CD is called Russell Peters: Red, White, and Brown. It was released in Canada in September 2008 and in the US on January 27, 2009. Peters produced this DVD along with his brother and manager, Clayton Peters.-Wiki
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