Russell Peters hasn’t lived in Canada for nearly 16 years. The award-winning comedian, who started his career in Toronto in the late ’80s, made the move to L.A. in the mid aughts and hasn’t looked ...

Comedian and actor Russell Peters is hitting the road for his Relaxed Tour, but he’s not quite at ease yet. “I was watching something the other day and realized that a couple of the bits I put in this ...

Stand-up comedy superstar Russell Peters doesn’t fear deportation back to Canada from his home in Los Angeles under Donald Trump. “In all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Russell Peters returns to the global stage with an all new world tour. The ...

Russell Peters has done the requisite Netflix stand-up specials (and a Prime Video one to boot), but he was making a point in 2016 when he called his second one “Almost Famous.” The Canadian-born ...

Only a handful of today's artists can claim their success began with YouTube, and even less, if any, having then been named alongside such luminaries as Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy ...

On Sunday, one of my buddies and I went downtown to the Oprheum Theater on Broadway for a taping of Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam. What can I say? I'm a sucker for lowbrow comedy. So, picture my ...