Russell Peters Live

Peters started doing stand-up at 19 at open mics in his native Toronto, and spent the next 15 years honing his craft at clubs across Canada and the UK. In 2004, he gained critical and global recognition for his CTV “Comedy Now!” special and soon became the first comedian to sell-out Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in 2007.

Peters has performed at venues from Madison Square Garden to The Sydney Opera House to London’s O2 Arena—where he broke the UK attendance record for highest number of tickets sold for an individual comedy show. His subsequent tours were captured in his successful specials broadcast on Showtime and Comedy Central: “Outsourced” 2006; “Red, White and Brown” in 2008; and “The Green Card” Tour in 2010. In 2013, Peters became the first comedian to create a Netflix Original Comedy Special.

“The Deported World Tour” was seen by over 400,000 fans in 40 cities across 20 countries and culminated in the stand-up special, “Russell Peters Deported” on Amazon Prime in January 2020.

Peters has been awarded Gemini, Peabody, Emmy and Canadian Screen Awards for his hosting, producing and acting. He resides in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and when not on tour spends every day with his daughter Crystianna and son Russell Santiago.

A blue belt with three stripes in Jiu Jitsu and an ardent DJ and hip-hop junkie, Peters tries to get on the turntables for at least a few minutes every day.