If Russell Peters isn’t a house hold name then it’s time for you to find a new household. Peters is a Canadian born comedic superstar known all over the world. His parents come from Mumbai and Calcutta, but here is a more accurate breakdown of his family. ‘”My family and I are Anglo-Indian,” Russell explains. ‘Anglo-Indians are a community of Indians from India who mixed with the British when they occupied India. Both of my parents are Anglo-Indian and their parents were Anglo-Indians and so on,’ says Peters.
Russell Peters is so huge in fact that according to russellpeters.com ‘During a recent tour of Dubai, Russell sold tickets at the rate of one ticket every two seconds crashing all the online sales outlets as soon as the tickets went on-sale.’ In April 2005 Russell Peters broke ground by becoming the first South Asian to headline and sell out at New Yorks Apollo Theatre. And his accomplishments aren’t only state side. In June of 2007 Russell Peters became the first comedian to sell out at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. At the Centre he performed for over 30,000 fans over the course of two nights. And if that wasn’t enough for him in February 2008 during his ‘Homecoming’ tour Peters was able to pack Madison Square Garden.
This performance was recorded for the cable channel Showtime and it’s being released on DVD for the first time as ‘Russell Peters: Red, White and Brown.’ This DVD has been released in different parts of the world but it comes out in the US tomorrow. So will the US dig it as much as other fans have? During the DVD you’ll realize that Russell Peters will take a stab at everything with a pulse leaving nothing sacred. Whether it’s West Indian music and how he feels that it’s too easy to write (and too happy) to the difference between New York Italians and Italians. ‘Red, White and Brown’ is the follow to his hit DVD ‘Outsourced,’ which was filmed at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. Since it was released ‘Outsourced’ went on to go platinum 11 times in Canada, says russellpeters.com.
To justify his comedic success Russell Peters has been nominated for four Gemini Awards over the course of his career. If ‘Red, White and Brown’ leaves you wanting more than you can catch him during The 20TH Anniversary Tour, which will go across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Go to russellpeters.com for tour dates.
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