{"id":66792,"date":"2016-03-27T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/russell-peters\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T05:51:15","slug":"russell-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/russell-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Peters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A South Africa Event on 2016-04-21 19:30:00<\/i><\/p>\n

RUSSELL PETERS is an international comedy rock star who regularly sells out arenas all over the world.\u00a0 Russell is just wrapping up his fourth sold-out world-wide tour, The Almost Famous Tour<\/em>, which celebrates 25 years in the business.\u00a0 His previous tour, Notorious<\/em>, became the highest attended comedy tour ever in Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Lebanon, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and his home country of Canada. Among the many venues Peters has sold out are Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, LA\u2019s Nokia Theatre, the Sydney Opera House and back-to-back nights at London\u2019s famed O-2 Arena.\u00a0 Peters was the first comic to sell out Canada\u2019s Air Canada center, which he has now done seven times and in November 2012, he became the first stand-up comic to perform at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Centre with over 13,000 fans in attendance. As a result, Peters is regular on the Forbes List of top ten highest earning comics, ranking as high as number three in 2013. His comedy has generated over 120 million views on YouTube.
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Peters has transitioned into both small and big screens, having recently been a judge alongside Roseanne Barr and Keenan Ivory Wayans for NBC\u2019s reboot of Last Comic Standing<\/em>, and lending his voice to the animated feature, Ribbit<\/em>, and to numerous episodes of the iconic animated Fox television show Family Guy<\/em> and Bob\u2019s Burgers. <\/em>He was also awarded a Gemini Award, Canada\u2019s version of the Emmy, for hosting the country\u2019s Juno Awards Show<\/em>. Other notable film roles include the recent Jon Favreau directed indie smash hit Chef<\/em>, the 2011 sci-fi movie Source Code<\/em>, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, the Canadian ice hockey hit Breakaway<\/em>, where he also served as Executive Producer and the Eva Mendes indie, Girl in Progress <\/em>alongside Mendes and Patricia Arquette. Peters has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Jimmy Fallon Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lopez Tonight, Craig Ferguson, the Queen Latifah Show and Def Comedy Jam.\u00a0
Russell was recently featured in a Variety article celebrating his 25 years in comedy: http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/biz\/spotlight\/russell-peters-25-years-in-comedy-1201539908\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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