![]() ![]() ![]() … People think it needs to be qualified by something else."Īs befits someone who claims to be obsessed with the proper use of language, Peters has built his career on this hyphenation – which isn't to say it was easy. "There's always that hyphen," he writes, "I guess that's what happens when you're the first at something. There's also the matter of being the first Canadian-born, Brampton-raised, South-Asian stand-up comedian in the world. "Many people see me as a celebrity," he writes, "but I definitely don't think of myself as one." There are many reasons for this, one of which must be the more than 20 years it took him to get there. He now performs to sold-out stadiums around the world and has more movie and television deals than most comedians can be bothered to envy.Ĭall Me Russell, we learn that nobody is more surprised by his success than Peters himself. Unless you're whiter than Don Cherry's hair, or have been living in a tree with squirrels for the past five years, you ought to know that Russell Peters is a comedian from Brampton, Ont., who struggled to make a living for 16 years until 2005, when an unauthorized YouTube clip from his stand-up show turned him into an international comedy sensation. ![]()
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