What ever happened to telling bedtime stories!?
01.05.2022 - 14:03 / etcanada.com
Russell Peters is back to smiling with his audience.
Peters is among the most accomplished comedians of all-time. Credited as the first person to ever have a Netflix stand-up special, the Canadian-born comedian of Indian parents has done just about everything in entertainment.
Despite his immense success, Peters has been performing with an underlying unhappiness. As he prepares to bring the Act Your Age tour to Canada, his first home country tour in four years, Peters has reconnected with his old self.
“Coming home is always exciting for me, but coming home with an act that I’m really, really proud of this time,” Russell told ET Canada. “Like this is one of those ones where I’m like, I mean, I say, I’m proud of it. I’m proud of every act I write, but this one is different in that I didn’t struggle to write it. I didn’t struggle to write it. I didn’t struggle to find the funny in it. It just literally happened.
“And it’s so organic this act and it’s a slight departure from the things I was talking about before. But at the same time, the most common response to this act for people is, ‘He’s back. It’s like old school Russell out there,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, that’s good to know.’ I guess I’m happy with it. I guess there was a phase where I went through where I was a little unhappy. You could tell when I’m on stage, there was an underlying unhappiness about me, and that’s gone.”
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The creative process hasn’t changed, but something just clicked for the comedy veteran of 30-plus-years.
“My process is always the same process. I get on stage and I talk. I just started ranting about getting older
What ever happened to telling bedtime stories!?
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