Best news to start the week with! Russell Peters is coming back to Malaysia with a brand new show!
“The Russell Peters Almost Famous World Tour” is set to feature all new material and of course, Peters’ quick improv skills with the audience. “I like to interact with the front rows,” says Peters of his signature back and forth with the audience. “I use the interaction to take me from bit to bit. Some guys go on-stage with a script and don’t deviate from it. That’s not my style. I have my set and know what I want to cover; I just use the audience to move me in certain directions. It’s very collaborative and each show is unique.”
This tour marks Peters’ second show in Malaysia. For his debut show, Peters sold out 16,000 tickets for two shows, which no other comedian has ever done before here. Russell Peters is set to make Malaysians laugh on April 10th, 2015 at Stadium Malawati in Shah Alam.
You can also watch Peters as a judge on NBC’s Last Comic Standing together with Roseanne Barr and Keenen Ivory Wayans. He can also be seen in Jon Favreau’s critically acclaimed film, Chef.
The Almost Famous World Tour will also feature Russell’s Official Tour DJ’s; Toronto’s DJ Starting fromScratch and New York City’s DJ Spinbad, as well as video cameras and screens for an up-close and intimate show in an arena setting.
Starting in 2008, Peters was one of the first stand-up comedians to self-finance, self-produce and distribute his own comedy specials and DVD’s, with Red, White and Brown and 2011’s, The Green Card Tour LIVE from the O2 Arena. The DVD’s went on to sell over 350,000 units across North America. His last special, Notorious was the first original comedy special for Netflix. Notorious was also supported by a four-part documentary series, Russell Peters Vs The World. Peters currently has over seven hours of content on Netflix.
Peters has given away more than a million dollars over the past several years to various charities, from the Brampton Civic Hospital, to Heart House Hospice, Gilda’s Club, the MS Society and a scholarship at his old high-school, The Russell Peters North Peel Scholarship to send a deserving student to college. The scholarship is now in its fifth year. Listed on the Forbes List as one of the top ten Highest Earning Comics in the U.S. since 2009, Russell
Peters has spent the past 25 years building a career to become one of the biggest comics in the world. Thanks to YouTube and a global following, Peters has sold-out arenas from Madison Square Garden to the Sydney Opera House. Peters has also performed for the troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and on the USS Eisenhower and HMCS Winnipeg, and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Lopez Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and on HBO, CNN, MTV, BBC and Al Jazeera. Peters’ 2010 memoir, Call Me Russell was a Globe and Mail number one bestseller in Canada.
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