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and never ever above all next on larry king now. our guest today on larry king hours russell peters great guy one of the world's most successful to medians the man who makes fun of everyone russell is currently a judge on last comic standing alongside keenan ivory wayans roseanne barr and host j.b. smoove last comic standing by the way airs thursdays at ten pm nine central on n.b.c. this fall he'll kick off his almost famous world tour it will be his fourth arena tour good seeing you again russell everything was is working for us is work for the larry king cardiac foundation twice and cracked everybody up his own highlight a few of his achievements ranked by forbes as one of the top ten highest grossing comedians the past five years sold out madison square garden radio city music hall
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las nokia theatre the sydney opera house and london's o two arena many of them several times videos of a crude more than one hundred twenty million views on you tube and he sold more than four hundred fifty thousand d.v.d.'s on the a comedy specials i've seen you work he's in safely funny why doesn't everyone american knows. if it might be might be better that they don't you know i don't know that i'm for everybody i mean i'm very lucky and think you know i think because i am from the generation probably the last generation that we you know i grew up in the seventy's and eighty's and we grew up with with the last true freedom of speech group. i grew up watching on the family and the jeffersons and stuff like that me if you think about it those shows will be made today because correct there's too many literally in her eyes to end and you know somehow the truth has become politically incorrect is the american market toughest i would say it's tough because i i mean. still so you know fifteen sixteen thousand seat arena
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has. but you know i think it's it's harder to dance around all the red tape that you go about in america because we're always bragging about in america you know you've got the freedoms we got all these great and freedom of speech and like we really don't have that freedom of speech anymore and you're right and everything and what about the everything tape there's no privacy there's no privacy i mean that's my biggest beef when i'm on stage is people trying to record me and i you know people aren't in the moment anymore people aren't there they're not present they're they're recording their memories and then they'll play it back to them later you know you take a picture develops right away right yeah it's you know suspense it's the now generation release now they want to now you get away with making fun of cultures you think you say things other people don't say oh can't say i say things people don't say because i say it from a more informed point of view i think and the reason why the people i'm talking
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about don't get offended is because i'm saying things from a true place and can argue truth you can't argue with the truth and there's also you know it's about intent people focus on the words instead of the intent and my audience understand my intent is to make them laugh which just goes back to rickles it's absolutely rickles one of my idols and i love don and you know i've had the opportunity to meet him twice and sweetest guy in the world. but let's take a look at a clip from your netflix specials called notorious watch russell peters. and i don't speak arabic sadly i don't speak any other languages i know you know phrases and stuff in other people's languages but i have a theory if you don't speak another language you can fake it. the trick is to know what another language sounds like and then when you do your impression of it sound angry when you do it because when you're angry you'll screw up whatever you're trying to say anyway it doesn't matter what language even if you speak to and i don't i mean i've got you know just you'll get angry and screw it up so if you know
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what it sounds like you can make it by just sounding angry but i'll give an example if i went to india there's over two hundred languages in india i don't know any of them and all i know like a couple of greetings but i don't know enough to get me in or out of trouble but i know what they all sound like and if i was stuck in india and i needed some help i would just fake it they would never know. but we stuck in india in a market of like a couple of kabul rather was they were no they were well behaved already he's very angry i don't know god i like not good at what does not is a very good was it was a cross said cross was you don't need people do we don't want that bad energy and if you try to get in front of that i had was you know what i had was. the same thing with any language you can fake it i'm going to hong kong
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a couple of weeks if i get stuck there i don't speak cantonese but i know what it sounds like i'll just act any talk of not speaking the it was god like words that mean a squeak it was never the case it's very made was made i've never seen somebody so maybe my life was with you are so they're nice to me you do indian food i can sound indian and it's funny is when i was i was in new york last year and i may or may not have had some alcohol in my system and i got in a taxi and it was an indian guy driving and my for some reason i spoke fluent punjabi to him to the point where he didn't charge me when i got to our destination and i even my friends like you speak i go i apparently i didn't know this new born in india was born in canada canadian canadian born and raised in canada and toronto canada is not known as
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a funny place. it's not that is not funny came into itself is not funny but when you're an outsider you learn how to be funny that's why we got so many great comics from canada i mean you know historically speaking we've had a ton of them you know oh yeah the first two little and you know john candy and jim carrey martin short i mean all those good you think canada you don't think funny you don't think mexico's funny mexico's hilarious and sad when they bruce used to do the canada's not funny mexico's fight. do you ever get offend people do people ever get mad at you i think if anybody does get mad they're misunderstanding the only time i have people take umbrage to anything is when i don't pick on them i always have the people i don't like hey well then we were waiting for you were committing to the latvian jokes i would i wish was up and. you interact with the audience to absolute like what it was some of those things you do well i can but i love i improvise so i never know what's going to happen and that's what makes it exciting for me and then do you oh you said the party is success is due to you to
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explain well i've been doing stand up for. fifteen years when you tube started ten years ago and somebody had taken my special it in two thousand and three chopped it up and sent it around you tube and i had no clue of this you tube or that whole file sharing world it wasn't anything i'm and i'm still not that you know profession to me. but apparently it struck a chord in and here we are today talking to larry king a man who i watched my whole life. so we were funny kid. i would say so i mean not hilarious i was the you know i once was very the class clown i think the class clown is the loud jerk in class they don't get anywhere and yeah i'm what i was the comedians i was the guys you know if you when i was sitting there i would try to make you laugh as opposed to make the whole class laugh you russell peters are a judge on last comic standing and you've been doing that since may right i think
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we started late march early april where you'd like that i love it judging other comics you know at first i was concerned that i would not be able to judge other comics but you know you have roseanne and you have keenan beside you and we have three different perspectives on it and you know canon watches it like a director would roseanne watches it from a sitcom perspective in a monastic comic still in the club still in you know in a row i watch the show is very good show then radio how much time no you know to get three minutes and a half minutes and then we show. it down to fit t.v. you know and i know so so why it's what makes these guys so good if you can do it in that short amount of time i tell you what i would be able to do that show as a guest you wouldn't i would have failed miserably what is roseanne i love roseanne known or long time what's she like to work with roseanne is great to work with and her and i became really good friends so you know she'll come to the house every now and then she'll bring her daughter and her son or whoever she is she's a great she's a really cool chick is it true that you worried at the beginning with now you don't
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care about critics or yelling people in the audience or dies jockeying you you know it's part of the job hazard i guess likely you mean you you don't welcome it you don't want it because you just want to go and do your job but i mean you can use them sometimes sometimes you can sometimes they're they're more of a disruption and they are help but a lot of times they're not really hackling me they're just you know excited to see when they're yelling out names of your old bits you know like wait money just watch the show we're at right now and we'll get to that when you go home and watch it on you tube do you when you when you when you get very well known and telling bob hope told me once and you get well known and comedy you have two minutes give you two minutes you're not being funny and that you know you can't you can't fake laughing no you can't you can't fake funny either you know it's it's one of those things yeah they're excited to see you so you actually get the two minutes that you would normally not get i think and when you're when you're not known you have thirty seconds so fame buys you a minute and a half do you have
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a bomb yeah you're never ever about bombing it doesn't matter who you are or how long you've been doing it i do see i know the number one thing is panic what do you do when they're not responding i like to address the fact that i'm bombing or what you say yeah because i think it's an honesty thing and i think if they understand that you're aware that this is not going well there's a better chance you'll win them back over. you know when it when it happens why it's happening there in yourself or them it depends but you know i would say most of the time it's probably your fault if you're a professional i've been doing this twenty five years i'm aware of when it's my fault i bombed recently in march when i was in england with silly london it was it was the this comedy night for g.q. magazine and they were doing g.q. comedy night and i was they'd flown the n. and they want to meet a close and i was like i'd rather go in the middle and they're like no you're from
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blah blah blah and we got it there was like twelve comics on before me and an intermission and by the time i went on it was just what it was too much and you know i think i had over dressed for the occasion. i think you know in england they don't like to see people doing the you can do well but you can't look like you're doing well you self-financing comedy specials absolutely that works out well for you one hundred percent of all the profits right you bet and there's no there's no one paying back anybody i saw you a chef a wonderful how did you enjoy it all of the only really top right yes or i love that movie it was a fun movie doing fabro was a great guy he's a friend of mine and asked me if i would do him a solid income down into the movie like oh yeah i want to do more movies would love to do more movies you know because you have a knack for it you know i mean you really good i would love to do more movies it's you know it's you know the whole movie and t.v. industry is like i school and if you're not in with the cool kids or not doesn't matter how good you are you're just not into the cool kids where did you have some
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comics and said the problem today is there's no place to fail. when you get booked today when you starting i got last comic standing might get a shot where would a young tom i think you know you would have to go through the proper channels of amateur nights and open mikes and all that kind of factory laugh factory and i think whatever the monday night i think it is and so you have to you know you got to put in your work still but a lot of guys will go on stage maybe four times and post their stuff on you tube and hope that it becomes a hit what made it to you. i think having the experience the way to get experience what you know in canada it was perfect i started in one thousand and nine comedy had sort of died in the late eighty's early ninety's because the boom was over the eighty's was the heyday and when i started nobody was paying attention to comedy it was the perfect time for me to start because nobody was nobody was looking and i could make all the mistakes in the world at that time she was clubs in town and there were clubs for many many years what city grew up and i grew up in brampton
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ontario canada and i started doing comedy in toronto and the good audiences they were they are great audience and they were tough. make me exactly canada does this i spent money do your job he's the first indian. to the. join me. for india impartial and. commentary for news and much much. only on the bus and. i knew that and i know how it works like. crap.
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like that but. like. i've been hearing. some great by a bunch of. like. as in this morning and just be glad. i'm the president and i'm fighting do you care so hard. for you like me to want your comedy news with some t want your comedy news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dead. like a vampire biting into the necks of the corporate elite billionaire freaks while they're going. well that's what you get with my new show projected in night.
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i guess is the. family many indian families where you go. now yes when i was growing up not so much now my hometown of brampton as they call it bramley dish. what brought your father to canada. an airplane and. my mom wanted to go to canada my dad want to go to england and my mom you know when you're married to you you compromise and you know the wife that's what they want to get out of india yeah they wanted out of india where the were anglo indians and there wasn't much left for anglo-indian we were leftovers we weren't poor we just weren't we were just below middle class and you father do he was a federal meat inspector we were blue collar is it true you will believe as a kid very much believe by other kids and other kids there was a lot of you it was a lot of racism in the seventies growing up and canada towards indian people
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especially really yeah and so i hung around all the black kids they didn't bother me they were you know i was always scared of a black eye so i was like i'm going to go with them because people don't say anything to them and they don't say anything to me you make fun of your father a lot of watching shares of putting this he watched you he did before he passed away did and he would always say i don't speak like that i've never said that and i go i know but it's funnier if i embellish your most famous joke is somebody is going to get really hurt real bad how did give me the genesis of that joke ok here's what have got it it's more than a joke it's this story ok here's what actually happened with that i used to d.j. these indian parties back in the day i used to d.j. and then i would end up teaching a lot of indian parties because there was not very many indian teaches back but i never played indian music i was playing like hip hop and r. and b. and you know they would get somebody else to come in and play and of music but anyway there would be fights at these parties and the fights were never good but as a guy who claimed that well i boxed for nine years and i did you jitsu so when i
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see a fight i run towards it because i want to see how people are actually fighting and i'm like suppose that a bully and i did absolutely so i had this fight broke out between these inning guys and some other indian guy went to break it up. and as the fight broke out i ran right towards the fire because i just want to see maybe somebody's going to get cute and take a swing in it i'm of the left i'm like oh it's already know you walk into a left hook you know but so this fight breaks on this other inning guy steps in the middle with some reason this kid had an accent and he goes no fighting today or somebody's going to go to hood really bad and my friends and i were all started laughing hysterically and that was around one thousand nine hundred three ninety four and we just kept saying it to each other all the time and i started working on the joke about my how my dad used to hit me and then for some reason i not true right my dad hit me absolutely make me you know we're from the generation that got it and i think that's good because when you get hit you understand consequence so what did he ever say going to get it no he didn't but i just figured it fit
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perfectly in there but it's a great bit we're going to go to police where i am going to that all that stuff happen except because i'm a good reporter i was kind of important i was going to call the cops of going to go to children's aid and i think i would do it you moved to malibu you know from studio city yeah that's that's when out of the valley right out of the valley you know and i thought i would miss the valley and really you know why don't my wife lives in beverly hills seventeen years and she still misses parts of the valley really intolerable avoid i ventured over the great but what are you grateful when i look out my backyard and see the pacific ocean and like i don't know it's so funny there's a restaurant across street from my house of paradise cove and they have on their menu fresh daily fresh fish and it's at atlanta examine like how fresh that. we're at the pacific ocean you're married divorced. that's why you smile you just see me later their view has children i have a daughter she's three and
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a half and she's awesome you can't be tough on her like your father was on you you know what i can't be tough at all with her i try i literally give her this look and i point and she laughs and then just say do it again daddy get angry. and i'm like wife indian no she wouldn't she was south america and ecuadorian in hunger in ecuador yeah mama speak the language spanish not very well she was born and raised in upland. biggest it was isn't it when canada and the united states in your travels rather than health care and guns. in travels being canadian is the best thing you can be when you're driving around the world because police chance of getting taken hostage. for some reason the world forgives us a checkpoint state of a canadian right name passport they look i think it was yeah they are usually pretty safe as well as a canadian going to steal like yeah what are we going to take a one in the butt worth i'm going to apologize about your ex-wife you say she's
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good looking on the outside she's like a ferrari without the engine to discourage this as she's seen your act she has and she laughs thank god she's got a sense of humor she also has a sense of bank account so she's ok do you date a lot. if you know by dating i mean sleep around yes i do what you mean i was left as an eye for detail yes yes no laughter when i mean if you're not eating less yeah ok here's my game stress on the road you like the road i love the road i mean i've known it for twenty five years and and the other neighbors only know i like all the cities i go to you know new york is my favorite place in the world if i could live anywhere i'd live in new york is there a tough time of the town. i wouldn't say they're tough comedy town there's some town that just don't get it. and there's a smaller cities in you know the midwest maybe that kind of go i don't get this almost the cultural thing you're talking about we have two questions for harry
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a book on facebook do you prefer being in improv comical crafting your own comedic material i like combining the two i always like you do and probably have a great situation no no no i just talk to them and i go off the top of my head and that's my favorite thing to do and fortunately i just talked to the i'm blessed to be a fast on my feet ronald sweet tweets how hard is it to be funny night after night when you're dealing with personal issues. will do because you're going through stuff you know it affects you as long as you let it affect you i mean when i shot my green card two were special and in two thousand and ten i'm in london england i was in a very bad mood i was married a month at that time and i knew it wasn't going to work out and i was in a horrible mood and you know you can see if you watch that special versus you watch notorious you'll see two very different versions of myself but there's a polyglot yes but right now there's a little on you have to do your job but he'd say he'd that via facebook wants to
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know who inspires you and how you stay relevant you know guys that all came before me in the pave the way george carlin is my number one idol and i knew george very well i love george i love don rickles i mean. you know even martin sheen you know yeah. you know not i'm friends with bob bob newhart who's also best friends with don and he was one of funny i'm friends with your friend said who you had breakfast with all day yellow j k deviancy that you did some amazing crowd work he says in newfoundland is this such a thing is taboo when it comes to your material i don't talk about religion because i think people are a little weird about religion especially nowadays and i'm more of a science guy than i am a beliefs guy i'm more of the facts than i am in the beliefs we play will. game of if you only knew it i thought the question you fit be as the first person you kissed i think it was a girl named tracy being it was my first real kiss with a tongue in canada in canada all year i was twelve and she was twelve and she was
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really pretty and she had red hair italy today and it's a guilty pleasure. man watching blooper shows secret talent deejaying i guess all time favorite comedian george carlin all time favorite rapper . big notorious b.i.g. thing you miss most about cat. food jamaican food i don't is not known as i love the food in canada but because i'm from there and i know where to go jamaican food and awesome jamaican food ghana whose approval means the most to you larry king's most good thinking most embarrassing moment. if there's so many of them we need specifics on that we where are you absolutely not funny. stuck in traffic on my phone all i'm fear i'm a measurable and try to get mad i get very angry if you if there was
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a camera on me doing this going and there's me i don't know why i get mad i get mad at airports delayed oh yeah you know i don't like i don't like stopping movement yeah i don't like negative distance if you were a comedian what would you be probably working in the shoe store in the mall or something be honest something you wish you were good at. maybe playing an instrument made to i like to play piano dear i wish i could play piano tell me something no one knows about russell peters i'm a degenerate. you know that's probably true face them i guess that's one of peter's last comic standing airs thursdays ten pm nine cents on n.b.c. you can find me on to get a good kids look at who was seated next. to .
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