Canadian Comedian Sensation Russell Peters NZ Arena Show
For immediate release: 9am Thursday 27th November 2014
ADRIAN BOHM PRESENTS
RUSSELL PETERS
ALMOST FAMOUS WORLD TOUR 2015
After setting attendance
records around the world, global comedy rock
star,
Russell Peters returns to
New Zealand with his Almost Famous World
Tour
AUCKLAND VECTOR ARENA
TUESDAY 24 MARCH
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After setting attendance records around
the world and completing one of the biggest comedy tours
ever with his Notorious World Tour in 2013,
comedian Russell Peters returns to New
Zealand
with his new Almost Famous World Tour
2015.
The Russell Peters Almost
Famous World Tour features ALL NEW
MATERIAL, plus Peters’ lightening fast improv
with the audience. “I like to interact with the front
rows,” says Peters of his signature
back and forth
with the audience. “I use the interaction to take me from
bit to bit. Some guys go on-stage with a script and don’t
deviate from it. That’s not my style. I have my set and
know what I
want to cover; I just use the audience to
move me in certain directions. It’s very collaborative
and each show is unique.”
This tour will mark
Peters return to the Allphones Arena in Sydney where he
holds the attendance record for a comedy
show, a feat no other comedian has achieved. The
Almost Famous World Tour will also
take
Peters to New York’s Madison Square
Garden as well as Los Angeles Nokia
Theatre in November and December. His last tour
took Peters to 26 countries and over 200 performances, with
over more
than 300,000 fans attending his shows
globally.
In the US, Russell can currently be seen as a judge on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, alongside Roseanne Barr and Keenen Ivory Wayans. Peters can also be seen in Jon Favreau’s critically acclaimed movie, Chef.
The Almost Famous
World Tour will also feature Russell's
Official Tour DJ's; Toronto's DJStarting
From Scratch and New York City's DJ
Spinbad, as well as video cameras and screens for
an up-close
and intimate show in an arena setting.
Starting in 2008, Russell was one of the first stand-up
comedians to self-finance, self-produce and distribute his
own comedy specials and DVD’s, with Red, White and
Brown and 2011’s, The Green Card Tour
LIVE
from the O2 Arena.
The DVD’s went on to sell over 350,000 units across
North America. His last special,
Notorious, which was filmed in Australia
during his last tour, was the first original comedy special
for Netflix. Notorious was also supported
by a four-part documentary series, Russell Peters Vs
The World. Peters currently has over seven hours
of content on Netflix.
Russell has given away more
than a million dollars over the past several years to
various charities, from the Brampton Civic
Hospital, to Heart House Hospice,
Gilda’s Club, the MS
Society and a scholarship at
his old
high-school, The Russell Peters North Peel
Scholarship to send a deserving student to college.
The scholarship is now in its fifth year.
Listed on
the Forbes List as one of the Top
Ten Highest Earning Comics in the U.S. since 2009,
Russell Peters has spent the past 25 years
building a career tobecome one of the biggest comics in the
world.
Thanks to YouTube and a global
following, Peters has sold-out arenas from Madison
Square Garden to the Sydney Opera
House. Peters has also performed for the troops in
Afghanistan, Iraq and on
the
USS Eisenhower and HMCS
Winnipeg, and appeared on The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno, Lopez Tonight,
Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late
Show with Craig Ferguson and on
HBO, CNN,
MTV, BBC and Al
Jazeera. Peters’ 2010 memoir, Call Me
Russell was a Globe and Mail number one
bestseller in Canada.
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