Then there are the American greats like Katt Williams and Kevin Hart, also kinda making their come-up as stand-up headliners lately. Of course we have Trixx and Jay Martin, Jean Paul, and a few others in Toronto who are definitely consistently hilarious, and provide comforting familiarity as well.
Russell Peters is one of the few comedians who has been able to provide that type of laughter for me over recent years, and I'm proud that he is one of "our own." The type that only a true comedian can give you. I miss like real hearty, eyes-watering, can't-breathe type of laughter. And not the every day chuckle, giggle with friends, or sitcom humour. The biography of Canadian comedian Russell Peters, "Call Me Russell" (2010) fulfilled both of these interests, with an easy read and a familiar tale. I love a good Canadian success story.and I love to read inspiring biographies of those who started with a dream, and didn't quit until that dream was fulfilled. It was a good read, but I don't think I would recommend it to anyone unless they are already a Peters fan. At the end of it, I was happy to close it. It would have been a better book without this chapter.
Seems kind of disingenuous to claim to not want to talk about his sex life and then go to the other wall and drop something like that. And then he almost immediately goes into telling us that he's had multiple three-somes. Peters starts the chapter by saying how he is concerned about talking about it all so he's going to make it as quick and as sanitized as possible. I don't get the chapter on his sex life, either. I'm not against swearing, but in a book it's distracting when it's being overused as Peters does. It seemed to me that he was pretty careful with swearing in the beginning and then after a few chapters the F-bomb was dropped everywhere. I think the book started strong and then kind of deteriorated a bit. It was also personally interesting because he grew up near me in the N section of Brampton about the same time I lived in the G section of Brampton so a lot of the schools and buildings he mentions in the book are known to me. Peters' life is much more interesting than I would have thought.
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