BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//COMEDY ATLAS//Event Calendar//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:special-event-russell-peters-31700@comedyatlas.app
DTSTAMP:20270130T000000Z
DTSTART:20270130T000000Z
DTEND:20270130T020000Z
SUMMARY:Special Event: Russell Peters
LOCATION:Helium Comedy Club\, 3070 Windward Plaza\, Alpharetta
DESCRIPTION:Only a handful of today’s artists can claim their success beg
 an with YouTube\, and even less\, if any\, having then been named alongside
  such luminaries as Richard Pryor\, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy in Rolli
 ng Stone’s recently released list of the 50 Best Comics of All Time. In c
 omedian Russell Peters’ case\, “success” may be a drastic understatem
 ent.\n\nRussell Peters started doing stand-up at the age of nineteen at ope
 n mics in his native Toronto in 1989. He spent the next fifteen years honin
 g his craft at clubs across Canada and the UK. In 2004\, Peters gained crit
 ical and global recognition for his CTV “Comedy Now!” special which wou
 nd up on YouTube. Peters says: “I never put the special on YouTube. I sti
 ll don’t know how to upload anything on the web to this day.” That uplo
 ad launched a new level of fame and unforeseen success. It also led to larg
 er and larger shows\, not only in arenas in his native Canada\, where he be
 came the first comedian to sell-out Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in 2007 (
 as of today\, six times and over 100\,000 people)\, but to arenas in the Un
 ited States\, the UK\, Australia\, South Africa\, the Middle East\, Eastern
  Europe and Asia.\n\nThe subsequent tours were captured in his phenomenally
  successful specials broadcast on Showtime and Comedy Central: Outsourced i
 n 2006\; Red\, White and Brown in 2008\; and\, The Green Card Tour in 2010\
 , which went on to set a UK attendance record for a one-off comedy show wit
 h over 16\,000 fans in attendance at London’s O2 Arena. In 2013\, Peters 
 became the first comedian to create a Netflix Original Comedy Special. Reco
 rded in front of over 14\,000 fans at Sydney\, Australia’s Allphones Aren
 a\, Notorious became a global success for Netflix. In conjunction with Noto
 rious\, Peters allowed cameras to follow him on-tour for a behind-the-scene
 s\, four-part documentary series\, Russell Peters vs. The World\, also excl
 usively for Netflix. Peters’ most recent world tour\, Almost Famous\, a c
 elebration of his twenty-five years in the…\nMore info: https://comedyatl
 as.app/comedy-atlas/event/special-event-russell-peters-31700/
URL:https://comedyatlas.app/comedy-atlas/event/special-event-russell-peters
 -31700/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR