Canadian comedian Russell Peters first found fame with his Comedy Central special Outsourced, and now fans can laugh along with him as he jokes about his Anglo-Indian heritage on his current tour. Russell Peters' Green Card Tour kicks off in Austin, TX on Nov. 4 and will see the comedian stopping in U.S. cities like Houston, TX; Grand Prairie, TX; San Jose, CA; Honolulu, HI; Atlanta, GA; Detroit, MI and Newark, NJ. Get your Russell Peters tickets to see Peters live this fall. Peters' tour is also in support of his latest book, Call Me Russell. Released via Doubleday Canada, the book is a candid memoir chronicling Peters' childhood and comedic rise.
At 39, Russell Peters has been hailed the top Anglo-Indian comic at his level, but despite selling out stadiums in Dubai, London, Sydney and Hong Kong, the Los Angeles Times reports that his fame is just starting to grow here in the States. Speaking about his anonymity relative to his global success-he holds the British record for largest attendance (16,500) for a single comedy performance and rakes in $10 million per year-to the Times, Peters says, "It is pretty crazy. When you look at the company I'm with [on the Forbes list], it's like Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Dane Cook, George Lopez. And you know all those people's names and you can give them credit. And you look at my name and you're like who .... Is this guy? Chris Rock calls me 'the most famous person nobody's ever heard of.'" For the record, Peters landed at No. 9 on Forbes' list of comedians.
Peters' popularity first began in his native Canada. According to his official website, Peters was the first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre in June 2007. Peters performed for over 30,000 fans over two nights at Air Canada Centre and the following year joined the small club of comedians that have ever headlined and sold out New York's famed Madison Square Garden. Peters has also completed multiple USO tours for the troops, traveling to Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti and Greenland.
Despite Peters' busy stand up schedule, he also has a film role lined up. Thaindian.com reports that Peters will star in the next film by lauded Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, best known for films like De Dana Dan and Singh is Kinng. Peters and his brother Clayton will co-executively produce the film, titled Breakaway. Breakaway is a cross-cultural hockey drama that follows a hero torn between the traditional expectations of his family and his own dream to succeed in the national sport of his adopted country, Canada.
Breakaway takes place in the Indo-Canadian community of suburban Toronto, which Peters can relate to. "I grew up in Brampton, where Breakaway is set and I know the characters in this movie first-hand," he told thaindian.com, "This is a great story about an Indian kid with a dream to do his own thing ... something I know a thing or two about." Rob Lowe, Camille Belle and Toronto actor Vinay Virma are also rumored to be in Breakaway.
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