4Laughs_Russell_Peters

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Comedy Career Path:
Basically I started doing this 17 years ago and within the past two and a half, three years, it all started moving in a very different direction. It was the internet that blew me up really.

Career highs:
Performing at the world famous Apollo Theatre last year, headlining that, that was great. Miss Nude UK, here in England, that was a damn good thing to have. Ha.

Career low:
I don't like to look at life with lows. There may have been a low point, but you take that low point and you flip it into experience instead of looking at it as a negative memory.

Influences:
George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy.

Television Favourites:
I used to watch Friends and stuff like that, but right now I find that TV's kind of lame. Especially in America. They've got their really weak attempt at the office which I think is terrible. But the Americans seem to love it. I'm like "What?!"

Words of advice for 4Laughs users:

Do what you feel is instinctually funny. Never try to make your comedy, what's the word I'm looking for? Stylish. Like "this is the style of comedy right now," because that's really not how comedy works. If you look at one person being successful doing comedy in a certain way, don't copy them, do it your own way. That's obviously their way, and that's why it's worked for them. Copying somebody else is just a lesser version of what somebody else originated.

My Web Address:

Russell Peters.com