Someone's going to laugh real hard.
I'm not going to say who... but... somebody.
The man who waved the red, white and brown and became one of the most popular comedians in the world has made an appointment with Prince George.
Standup comic Russell Peters is the star of his own comedy specials, TV shows ranging from sitcoms to hosting gala specials, a number of movies, even a CBC Radio-play series called Monsoon House about a book publishing company. Perhaps that life could imitate art he wrote his own book entitled Call Me Russell, a 2010 autobiography.
With all that's happened since then, it could probably use an update. Peters has been on a breathtaking pace, selling out arenas with his personal appearances and hitting bestseller lists with his DVDs. His original stand-up specials started with Outsourced in 2006, the global smash Red White & Brown in 2008-09, The Green Card Tour: Live from the O2 Arena in 2011, Notorious in 2013, Almost Famous in 2016, and his most recent hit is the TV series Indian Detective which also stars Anupam Kher, Christina Cole and William Shatner.
The path was a long one from the suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area to the toast of the international comedy industry, but Peters is indelibly one of the nation's most celebrated ambassadors of joke. He is a master of acerbic self-deprecation, with a journalistic eye for material, a magician's deft touch for surprise, and a swashbuckler's zeal for thrust-and-parry.
He is raw, unfiltered and live at CN Centre on Nov. 5.
Tickets to see Russell Peters go on sale July 20 at 10 a.m. via the TicketsNorth website and the CN Centre box office.
