Russell Peters is an Indo Canadian stand up comedian and actor. He is well known for his quick wit and mimicry. Peters was born in Toronto, Canada to Eric and Maureen Peters. He hosted the Juno awards two years in a row. Sirius Canada, the satellite radio company, teamed with Russell Peters to find Canada's Best Funny Five, a national talent hunt to discover the Canadian with the best five-minute comedy set. Peters has set up an award worth of $20,000 to help a needy student of his former high school, the North Peel Secondary School. The money will be awarded to a student with good academic standing and needs financial help to attend college. The scholarship is known as Russel Peters North Peel Scholarship. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/802271--russell-peters-creates-high-school-scholarship-in-brampton?bn=1
Life and Career
Russell Peters started performing stand up comedy in 1989. He was nominated four times for the Gemini Awards. Peters was featured on Montreal's Just for laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. His 2009 tour, named 20th Anniversary Tour, will go over Canada, USA and UK. it started in January, 2009His comedy DVDs are Outsourced, and Red, White, and Brown.
Quotes
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992289/bio Remember when Halloween was about being scary? Now its just about looking skanky... What do hookers dress up as?... Regular chicks? http://twitter.com/therealrussellp
