Russell Peters 2022

Russell returns to the global stage with an all new world tour. After building his new act in clubs across the United States over the past year, Russell is back with his hilarious take on cancel culture, aging and the current state of the world.

Russell Peters was recently named as one of Rolling Stone's 50 Best Comics of All Time. He started doing stand-up at the age of nineteen and by 2007, was receiving global recognition becoming the first comedian to sell-out Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Peters went on to set attendance records at Madison Square Garden, The Sydney Opera House and 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. In 2013, Peters became the first comedian to create a Netflix Original Comedy Special. Peters' most recent tour, 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.

Peters has been awarded Gemini, Peabody, Emmy and Canadian Screen Awards for his hosting, producing and acting talents. His last TV series, The Indian Detective set a Canadian viewership record for Bell Media /CTV in 2017 and was released globally on Netflix. Peters just launched his own Podcast, 'Culturally Cancelled with Russell Peters' and is currently developing a TV series based on his childhood in Canada in the 1980's as well as executive producing the TV series 'Late Bloomer'with YouTube sensation Jus Reign. Peters will also be seen later this year in the feature film, Clifford The Big Red Dogfor Paramount Pictures.