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NARRATOR: Movies, television, sold-out shows,
this is all pretty standard for Russell Peters.
Usually successful in his native Canada
and all across the globe,
mainstream America has yet to catch on to him
the same way international audiences have.
So how do you transition from being
just a regular guy during the day
to commanding an audience
of thousands of people at night?
For Russell Peters, it's just a day in his life.
CLAYTON: You know, as Russell's manager,
I'm in the Russell Peters business.
So day of show, I let him sleep.
Sleep is sort of a premium commodity for him,
given all the traveling that he does
and the time zones that he's crossing,
and the fact that all eyes are on him for two hours.
Russell Peters is my brother, my baby brother.
And that's who Russell Peters is always gonna be to me.
( hip-hop theme playing over speakers )
( crowd cheering )
( knock on door )
( groans )
You guys.
So see you later.
Hello, kids.
Just gonna take a quick shower and, um...
You know. You know how that is.
I'm a little smelly from the night.
Wow, it's late, huh?
I'll take a quick shower,
and then we'll go find some food.
Now I'm gonna go and check the lights,
gonna check the sound for him.
You know, see how they've set up the stage.
My job is to make sure
that it's as controlled an environment as it could be
for when he gets onstage.
He basically just has to show up.
Today's the first day of the tour
and I don't know where the other comics are staying.
I don't even know if they're staying in my hotel
or what their deal is.
I haven't spoken to any of them since we booked the tour.
There'll be Gabriel Iglesias, Lisa Lampanelli and Steve Byrne.
This is all it is, really, when I wake up. I just...
receive calls and texts,
and reply to people as best I can.
Hey, what's up there, Vinods?
My brother is my manager.
I'm his only client, he's my only brother.
It works out really well.
CLAYTON: If there's a real question
about something that I don't know,
then I'll get in touch with him.
But otherwise it's about him getting some rest,
hanging out with his friends,
having a good breakfast, having a good meal.
A lot of times, it involves shopping.
All right, see you later.
I love you, bye.
Love you, bye.
I have an audition on Tuesday
for a movie with Cameron Diaz and J.Lo.
The character's name is Patel.
I'm not doing an accent. It says no accent.
I won't do anything with an accent.
Hey, Pauly.
MAN: Hi, buddy.
MAN: It's crazy how quick
the new DVD's out on the Internet already.
Yeah, it's insane.
You should see the e-mail I got from a guy today.
His subject line was "Hammered."
"Are you *** stupid?
Why the hell would you report these videos?
I'm putting them up for people to watch.
Obviously, I'm not gonna make money.
Why would you ever report a Russell Peters video?
You've got issues."
They really don't realize what it costs or what--
They have no concept of copyright.
They just think it's like:
"I'm not making money on it,
so why are you getting mad at me?"
He's promoting--
Yeah, they're promoting.
I've told them, "If we wanna promote, we'll promote."
It doesn't matter where your parents are from.
If they weren't born in this country,
they will whup your *** when you're growing up, won't they?
Kids now are growing up in a multicultural society.
You'll have white kids growing up with black kids,
and brown kids and Asian kids,
and they're all gonna be hanging out on the playground.
You know what I mean?
And they're gonna be talking about
the ***-whupping they got last night.
Do you want that little white kid to feel left out?
My dad's theory was:
( in Indian accent ) "If I get rid of one,
I'll just make another one.
( audience laughing )
And I will tell the new one
what an idiot the last one was."
So you're hosting tonight?
Yeah.
Is that an arena or a theater, or--?
I don't know what it is, dude.
Honestly, I haven't spoken to anybody yet.
MAN 1: Oh, so you guys are winging the entire night, or--?
RUSSELL: Yeah, I guess.
MAN 2: Nice.
MAN 1: That's always a good start.
If I wanna add the extended warranty, it's 15 grand.
I'm like, "Are you *** me?
Fifteen grand? That's another *** car."
MAN 3: It is.
MAN 2: Sweet car.
Why, that is a Rolls-Royce Drophead convertible.
Ha-ha-ha.
I got it a week ago.
I traded in my Bentley Continental GTC.
Um, and the reason for that was
I've been watching too many Real Housewives shows,
and every housewife has one of those.
And I felt it very emasculating
that I had this beautiful car,
but all these stupid hookers that--
Whose husbands pay for their lives had one too.
And I'm like:
"This ***'s gotta go."
And I've always liked that Rolls-Royce.
You probably can track my success
with the cars I've had. My--
My first car was a Saturn SL.
And it was the base, base model back then.
It cost $9,000 brand-new. No tape deck even. Talking '92.
And then my next car was an Isuzu Rodeo.
I think I had AC.
Next car was a Lexus ES300.
MAN 2: Great car.
RUSSELL: It was a great car.
Then I went into a Lincoln LS. Piece of ***.
Then I got into a Lexus GS400.
Then I got a Lexus LX470.
Then I moved to the States. Brought a Porsche Cayenne Turbo.
Then I got a little Audi A4.
Then I brought an Audi S8. Then I came back home.
And then Lexus gave me a LS 600 Hybrid,
which is a great car.
Then I went back to L.A.
I brought a '64 Impala Convertible
off one of my friends.
That month, I brought a Bentley.
About a year later, I traded in the Porsche Cayenne
for the Porsche Panamera Turbo.
Oh, and then I also brought an Infiniti N45
somewhere in between there.
And then I brought my wife
a Range Rover Sport Supercharged.
MAN 2: That's a lot of cars.
RUSSELL: And then I got a Jaguar back in Canada.
An XFR.
MAN 2: You're like Jay Leno.
Only without the classiness of it.
He buys, like, cars that are like,
"This car was powered by steam."
Mine's like, "This one looks incredible."
I know nothing about cars, I just like the way they look.
I know I would never buy
that *** Corvette right there.
I never thought making it was an option,
so that's probably why I go over the top with all this.
Because it's kind of like:
"Sure I can really have this?" So I take it.
And it's been pretty good.
For the past seven years.
The money is gravy. Ahem.
The job is your meal.
Oh, okay. Cool. Okay, good.
CLAYTON: Okay, good.
And we're good.
The New Majority Tour is a new concept for us
that we are working on, trying to develop.
It's a tour that basically reflects
the changing face of America,
which is no longer just white guys talking about,
you know, the things that they talk about.
This is now guys like my brother,
who are Canadian, but East Indian and Anglo-Indian,
who are coming up on stage,
talking about their experience.
RUSSELL: It's great to be here in Fairfax.
Fairfax, Virginia. Test, test, test.
CLAYTON: We grew up with all these different types of people
in this really mixed environment
with a lot of people that looked like us
and didn't look like us.
And so that's what's normal to us.
The new majority is the new normal.
That's our normal.
Test, test, test. One, two, three.
That's nice and clean.
There's a pretty good echo out here though.
RUSSELL: What's the word, Duck?
DUCK: How are you?
RUSSELL: How's wifey?
Good, man. Kids are good, wife is good.
Oh, congratulations, by the way.
You got married and had a kid, right,
since the last time I saw you?
Yeah.
DUCK: Dude, that's what's up.
You did-- You did something with Charlie Sheen too, right?
Yeah, I did three of his shows for him.
He's a mess. He's a good guy though.
That's gotta be crazy.
He's a good dude.
One twenty-one ninety.
These come in high-top?
Hey, that's all right.
No.
Damn, those would be dope in high-top.
What you got, son?
A lot. What are you looking for today?
RUSSELL: I don't know.
You know you always got that ill ***.
Dill, check these.
Do you want these? You definitely need something.
Let's get some stuff.
You guys want anything? What size shirt are you, Sulean?
Medium?
RUSSELL: Hey, there's Belladonna.
I'm friends with her.
I like to make sure everybody around me
is comfortable and taken care of.
You a size 13, right?
What size is your noggin again?
Seven-- Seven and three-eighths, that's what it was. Okay, good.
Okay, bye, bird.
Hey, what size are the baby's feets?
DUCK: I never heard of him until he came in here.
And then I Googled him and I was like:
"Wow, this dude has a huge following.
Like, it was unbelievable."
I think he's a little too smart to be a comedian.
But, you know, hey, this is, you know,
his chosen profession and he's very, very good at it.
So my act stinks, but I'm just smart.
Shut up.
So you all set?
RUSSELL: Yeah.
All right, bro.
Thanks, Ducky.
Peace.
Good seeing you.
Guys got everything?
DUCK: Good luck tonight.
Thanks, man.
You probably--
I probably do need it,
at least to get there, good luck.
Nice.
Gotta hurry now.
MAN: It's not a lot.
RUSSELL: I always end up running late
because I'm an idiot. Let's go, ***.
I'm here to see the New Majority Tour
with Gabriel Iglesias and Lisa Lampanelli.
So it's a really great three-for-one
and I'm real excited to be here.
I'm late as ***, and we're stuck in traffic.
Why don't you jump in the left lane, go around?
I'll teach you how to drive tonight, Austin.
We feel connected to his ethnic humor.
We can relate to it.
And he's Canadian, so we like him.
You know, he's brown, we're brown.
It makes sense.
Is this too racist?
( all laughing )
Don't let your Asian side kick in.
Lean to the cracker on this side.
All right.
RUSSELL: Like Tetris, you see an opening, take it.
He's gonna be the biggest star, I swear.
He's absolutely the funniest man in America right now,
and he's not even American.
I'm speaking to people
that were never spoken to before.
Comedy was always black or white.
And I don't just say things for the sake of saying them.
I genuinely know what I'm talking about
when I talk about other people's cultures.
He makes them sound so much like our parents talk.
When I was at my house, my mom's house,
about a month ago,
I was singing a song again, and she goes:
"If you knew that...
If you knew your schoolwork like you knew that rap music,
you'd be-- You'd have gone to university, right?"
And I was like, "Yeah, I would have gone to university
and then what? We'd be broke."
Is that the venue in front of us?
WOMAN: Yup, that's it.
MAN 1: Is that the one?
MAN 2: Yeah.
( hip-hop theme playing over speakers )
MAN 1: All right?
Thank you. Can I get these, please?
I like them.
Oh, yeah, these are dope, dude.
Yeah, son.
MAN 2: Oh, that was you.
MAN 3: Thank you, bro, I appreciate that.
RUSSELL: Hey, Teats.
CLAYTON: Hey.
( Clayton grunting )
Hey, are you going to a wedding with this outfit?
ANNOUNCER: Good evening, Fairfax.
How's everybody doing tonight?
( audience cheering )
Welcome to The New Majority Tour.
Please welcome your host to the stage.
Mr. Russell Peters!
( audience cheering )
( soul theme playing over speakers )
RUSSELL: Hey.
Here's what's gonna happen,
I'm gonna conduct things all night.
I'm gonna be in and out.
And I'm gonna be like a Jamaican father.
I'm in and out of your lives. Um...
( audience laughing )
Sometimes you don't see me for a little while,
but I'll be back, you know.
It's funny, as you're driving into Fairfax, Virginia,
there's a sign saying:
"Fairfax, Virginia, founded in 1801."
And then the first restaurant you see
is Bombay cuisine or some ***.
Bombay Bistro.
And you know *** Indian people bought that place.
It looks like it used to be a Taco Bell.
( Indian accent ) They're like,
"Listen, nobody wants tacos here.
Fairfax needs Bombay Bistro.
We will give you a different type of the ***."
( normal voice ) There's a brown guy
showed up with a white girl. How'd you guys meet?
Did he fix your computer one day? I mean...
( female voice ) "Yeah, I seem to have, like, some sort of--
It's freezing all the time."
( Indian accent ) "Let me take one look. One second."
( female voice ) "Oh, Kumar."
( normal voice ) Black people--
Where are you, black people? I see one.
With an Indian girl. That's cool.
A black guy with an Indian girl, that's interesting.
Good job on ever meeting her family. Uh...
( laughter )
You guys married?
I like how you both don't wanna answer me right now.
How long you been together for?
About a year.
And you know you--
You have never met her family, right?
You have?
But not under the pretense of, "This is my boyfriend."
***, no.
You're still here.
( Indian accent ) "You black ***.
You stay away from my daughter.
You keep that giant thingy-thing-thing
away from her."
( laughter and applause )
"Now, sweetie, get back to Bombay Bistro.
You have a shift starting this evening."
( normal voice ) Let's get this show moving. You ready?
Please welcome the very funny Mr. Steve Byrne.
( hip-hop theme playing over speakers )
What a treat to be here.
Got a call a few weeks ago from my booking agent. He says:
"Steve, I got great news for you.
I just booked you for two shows, sold-out, Las Vegas, Nevada.
You're gonna open for Chris Rock."
Know what I told him? "Absolutely *** not.
Here's what you'll do.
You'll book me in a half-filled arena
in Fairfax, Virginia."
That's where the *** action is.
That was fun off the top, huh?
Amazing crowd.
I went out the gate, though. I had to.
Come out like a charging bull.
Have you said "sand ***"?
Mm-mm.
Will you be saying
"sand ***"?
Nope.
May I say "sand ***"?
You can call me whatever you want.
Camel jockey, sand ***.
Dune ***.
Dune ***.
Those are the only two I've come up with so far.
Turbanator X.
I like that. I'll take that too.
I'm looking forward to being insulted.
Isn't it fun?
I love it.
I do too.
Especially from you.
There's something wrong with me.
Like, why do I wanna do that? I don't know.
It's a deep psychological problem.
If you don't give a ***, you won't say anything.
It's like, "Hey, how are you?"
I don't want that fake ***.
No ***. No ***. God, you eat healthy. *** you.
Ha-ha-ha. Isn't that right, Russell?
I love you, man.
RUSSELL: Bye.
LISA: Thank you.
She's so *** funny.
This next person I'm bringing to the stage
is one of my favorites in the entire world.
Please welcome Lisa Lampanelli!
( country theme playing over speakers )
LISA: Clap it up for Russell. Isn't he great?
That is one funny sand ***. Holy ***.
I'm sorry,
I can't believe I used that word "sand."
Anyway...
( audience laughing )
RUSSELL: Does your mom do very Indian things to you
that she doesn't realize she's doing?
In an Indian house,
just so you know,
from the age of 3,
when you start going to the bathroom by yourself,
for the rest of your life,
your parents will wanna know what's going on in there.
Like, I'm 41 years old,
if I go to my mom's house tomorrow and I'm like:
"Ma, can I use the bathroom?" She'll be like:
( Indian accent ) "Okay, wait, wait, wait.
What do you have to do?"
( normal voice ) She ask you
what you're doing in the bathroom?
You're 14. She knows what you're doing in the bathroom,
to be honest with you. I, uh...
( audience laughing )
Let's be honest, Griffin,
you're in prime wanking years right now, my friend.
And, uh...
There's nothing wrong with you.
There's nothing wrong.
Let me break it down for you, Griffin,
just so you know.
Because I don't want you to feel like you're alone when--
Well, you are. You should be alone, by the way,
when you're doing that.
Just for the record.
You should definitely be alone when you're doing that.
It's true, every guy does. And you know what?
There's nothing wrong with it.
I started-- I think I was, like, 12
when I figured-- And I didn't know,
it's not like somebody goes--
It's not like your dad pulls you aside and goes:
( Indian accent ) "Son, one day, take it in your hand
and pretend you're shooting dice.
You know, hard."
( normal voice ) Folks, are you ready
for your last act of the evening?
The incredible and funny
Gabriel Iglesias!
( upbeat theme playing over speakers )
( audience cheering )
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Russell Peters!
Whoo! Oh, yeah.
That was a long walk.
STEVE: Yeah.
RUSSELL: You're getting married in two weeks?
Yeah.
RUSSELL: Where?
Chicago. June 16th.
I'm gonna be in town. I'm doing ***' the Rosemont.
STEVE: What day are you doing it?
MAN: Eighteenth.
What day is the 16th?
STEVE: Thursday.
I'm doing it the 18th on a Saturday.
STEVE: Wanna come?
MAN: With Lopez.
RUSSELL: Not if I wasn't invited.
Oh, for the love of *** God.
RUSSELL: Who's the DJ at your wedding?
I don't even know.
I could DJ your wedding.
I'm not having you come and DJ
I would love to.
a wedding.
Are you kidding me?
I would kill it.
MAN: Dude, he would--
You'd have the
best *** time.
He DJ'd my brother's wedding.
It's not gonna be, like, ridiculous, crazy.
That's like having Paul McCartney be like,
"Yeah, I'll come and I'll cater it. You know.
I could be at an arena and, you know, but I--"
Are you mad you weren't at my wedding?
Because there was 20 people.
I'm not mad.
RUSSELL: It was in Vegas
at the Little White Wedding Chapel.
And I've known him for 27 years.
Is that why we're fighting?
STEVE: What? We were never fighting.
I don't know. I think we're fighting now.
We're fighting?
I'll play it.
STEVE: That's really *** up.
MAN: You have to invite yourself.
That's really--
And you know what's even more *** up,
is that I'm actually gonna be in town
so it just got uncomfortable. "Oh."
Well, I texted this *** twice.
He has a baby. I texted him, I didn't hear anything back.
You wanna see her?
Then we started the tour, I texted him.
I never heard back. So why would I...?
Yeah, why invite him now?
Yeah.
Yeah, *** you, man.
MAN: When he says invite himself.
I would love to.
That's what came out of my balls.
STEVE: So beautiful.
That's awesome. Oh, wow.
So cute.
RUSSELL: You're new, aren't you?
You look Arab. I don't trust you. I, um...
( audience laughing )
What are you, Saudi or something?
Yup. I can tell right away when I see them.
What are you taking? Engineering probably, right?
Architecture. Hm.
( audience laughing )
( Arab accent ) "No, I just need the blueprints for the White House.
I am planning to design something like that back home."
( normal voice ) And that guy's Arab, beside you too?
Yep.
Yeah.
RUSSELL: I could tell
because he almost had on an American outfit,
till you got to his ***-up slippers. That's...
That gave that *** away.
You get a shot of those slip--
Look at those *** things. What is that?
( Arab accent ) "I will protect my big toe."
( in normal voice ) Look at you,
you got beer underneath your seat there, Faisal.
Look at you, drinking the devil's juice, huh?
( Arab accent ) "I don't know why
we don't have this back home, but..."
( normal voice ) Probably have non-alcoholic beer there.
Do they have non-alcoholic beer in Saudi Arabia?
Of course.
RUSSELL: Really?
That's *** horrible.
Non-alcoholic beer is like a vibrator
with no batteries. You know, that's, uh...
It'll fill you up, but there's no buzz, you know? There's...
Thank you guys for coming out.
It was the first day of The New Majority Tour.
We hope you had a great time.
Give a round of applause to Steve Byrne that was up here.
Get up here, Steve.
( audience cheering )
And Lisa Lampanelli, the Queen of Mean.
Give it up for Gabriel Iglesias one more time.
And DJ Spinbad for holding it down.
You guys have been awesome. Good night.
RUSSELL: Yeah, come on. Be in the way.
I would still be doing it if I had never made it.
I would still be doing it for 100 dollars a gig.
I'd still be doing it for whatever.
MAN: Peanuts.
RUSSELL: It's just all I know how to do.
MAN: There you go, bro.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you very much.
RUSSELL: I do it because I like doing it.
Cool. Thanks, guys.
BOY: Thank you.
WOMAN: Thank you.
Thanks. Thanks for waiting.
MAN 1: Thanks.
RUSSELL: See you, buddy. Take care.
MAN 2: Thanks, fellas.
RUSSELL: Hi, Ma.
WOMAN ( over phone ):
Nothing. How's the baby?
MAN: Ready to go?
Yeah, see, she makes those cute cooing sounds now.
Good. We just finished the show.
Today was Virginia. And tomorrow is
Boston.
It went really well. What time's our flight tomorrow?
CLAYTON: Yours is later.
I think yours is like 1-something.
Okay.
Brother is beside me.
Hi, Ma.
I'm good. I'm tired.
Yeah, yesterday was a long day.
Good night, guys.
Good night.
RUSSELL: Pizza, dog.
Hello.
MAN: Oh, my God.
Do you have any pepperoni?
Russell Peters!
Yes, sir.
Oh, my God! It's him!
Don't charge this man.
He rocked the house, man, believe me.
I gave a little money. You gotta make something.
No.
It's okay.
You're running a business.
It's okay.
You made my night-- I mean, my day.
Thanks, buddy.
All right, anytime.
Take care, man.
You good? You got it?
You got it? Don't drop it.
Yeah. God bless you, man. Thanks.
All right, brother.
I'm gonna walk and eat too.
Today was a good day.
It started off a little hectic, with the running around to eat,
and buy shoes and get to the show.
Bottom line is, the show went great.
We had a good after party.
I got a nice buzz.
And now we're eating pizza, which is the best part ever.
It is 3:40 at night. In the morning, rather.
And I'll be going to bed now.
( mellow theme playing )