Russell Peters Presents

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Product Description AS SEEN ON SHOWTIME. Russell Peters is now the number 1 comedian in the world selling out stadiums all around the world. Russell Peters sold out the 18,000 seat O2 Arena in England 2 nights in a row. The only other comedian that gets close to the numbers that Russell is selling in tickets sales around the world is Chris Rock. Now, Russell's leveraging his popularity and celebrity status to showcase the talents of some of his favorite up-and-coming comics. In this first installment of "Russell Peters Presents," audiences will be introduced to four very funny and diverse comedians: Tom Segura, Paul Ruben, Paul Varghese and Jason Rouse. Get ready to laugh! About the Actor Russell Peters is already a comedy superstar in much of the world. 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 was the first South Asian to headline and sell out the Apollo Theatre in New York City. In June 2007, Russell became the first comedian to sell out Toronto s Air Canada Centre performing for over 30,000 fans over two nights. In addition to this first-time feat, in February 2008, Russell became one of only a handful of comedians to ever headline and sell-out the world famous Madison Square Garden. Russell s last DVD and CD, Outsourced, was taped before a sold out audience at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, and gives viewers and listeners an excellent overview of Russell s comedic genius. As much a humorist as a comedian, Russell doesn t really tell jokes. Rather, he uses his wry observations on the subjects of race, class and culture to illuminate our human shortcomings with the sizzling accuracy of a well-aimed laser. His quick wit and ability to mimic language and accents allows Russell to create characters of all races and cultures and forge an immediate bond with his audiences, regardless of their racial and cultural background. Outsourced has gone eleven times Platinum in his home country of Canada. Russell has been doing stand up for 20 years and already has an impressive resume. He had a recurring role in the Canadian sitcom Lord Have Mercy and hosted his own BBC chat show Network East Late. His movie credits include the comedy Quarter Life Crises, My Baby s Daddy and the martial arts flick Tiger Claws III. Russell has been nominated for four Gemini Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmys. He has been featured at Montreal s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, HBO s Aspen Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh (Scotland) Comedy Festival and many others across the globe. His TV appearances include CBC s Comics! and two one-hour Comedy Now! specials on The Comedy Network in Canada. His Comedy Now! performance of February 2004 is one of the network s most popular shows of all time. When fans placed segments of the special on the internet it created a global demand for Russell comedy and his popularity exploded. His Youtube videos have been viewed by over 20 million individual viewers. His website gets over 10,000 hits a day and alerts his many fans to his upcoming shows via targeted email blasts. He s performed sold-out tours of China, South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Jamaica, St. Maartens, Trinidad, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates and in 2007, was the first North American comic to tour India. In 2007, Russell completed two USO tours for the troops. During these tours he performed on the USS Eisenhower and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti and Greenland and was part of a special Thanksgiving Tour for the troops with the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Cartwright. Russell s comedy is rooted in the reality of growing up brown in white Canadian society. 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. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Director Scott Montoya - DIRECTOR/PRODUCER With a career in entertainment for nearly 20 years, Scott Montoya first began as a producer, and talent manager eventually transitioning successfully to the creative side as a Director and Producer. Scott's focus has primarily been on creating, directing and producing Stand-up Comedy Specials for broadcast Networks such as Showtime, Comedy Central and HBO. Since 2007 Scott has directed and produced well over 55 Stand-up Comedy specials for Network Broadcast. Scott's first creative success as a producer came through Paramount Pictures acclaimed hit The Original Latin Kings of Comedy starring George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Alex Reymundo, and Joey Medina; The Original Latin Kings of Comedy is still today the highest grossing Latino Stand-up Comedy DVD of all time. Scott has continued to create award winning stand-up comedy series and specials for Showtime, Comedy Central, and HBO having won a 2008 ALMA award with Latin King of Comedy star Alex Reymundo producing Alex's premiere one hour stand-up comedy special for Showtime Networks entitled Hick-Spanic. In 2008 Scott founded LOL Comedy Inc., with producing partners Neal Marshall and Robert Abramoff. LOL Comedy Inc. has become a well established stand-up comedy aggregator that produces stand-up comedy programming and original content for Network Broadcast. As a contemporary brand LOL Comedy Inc.'s main mission is to deliver true stand-up comedy, the way comedy was meant to be seen, uncensored and uncut See more