by Rukmini Sengupta
So most of the people reacted saying, “he is going to repeat the same old jokes and why spend 2K when you can watch him on youtube.”, when I told them about me going to Russell Peters show. Well to all of them I would say, you missed a pretty good show! Chennai traffic tops the list of things I hate about this place. And thanks to them I reached the show a good twenty minutes late, and missed out on the laughter. Well to the Chennai crowd, I appreciate how everyone was just organized enough to not rush in and out because of our obvious typical habits. I mean for God’s sake, you have paid for the freaking ticket so obviously you will get your seat, but no, if you don’t push a bunch of people around you and get there before everyone, someone might just capture your seat. But I was glad to not experience such chaos in this show.
Coming back to Russell Peters, he owned the night. There was not a single moment or even a punch where it would go stale or not laughed at. When I entered the show, he was in the middle of mocking the middle-east and the people there. He described their accent as that of an asthmatic patient. Well, I wouldn’t disagree to that. I wasn’t actually expecting something new because I had this very stupid misconception of him running out of the comedy streak. And as usual he very well targeted the front section of the crowd and made sure they never buy those tickets again. Looking at them, I realized, it’s better to be a volunteer at a magic show that to be an object of being cracked at by Russell peters. His way of throwing those punch lines and situations and the standup is something which is very hard to achieve. He went on from pregnant women to men at different ages. He didn’t spare an old man of 75 and asked him about his sex life and well that guy did take everything very sportingly. But then again, you buy a Russell peters front row ticket, you knew about the downside. I had some lady behind me who couldn’t stop laughing, even when he wouldn’t start with something new. She was still caught up laughing about the previous one and she was waiting for the next one. Peters actually made the fact of getting a tattoo done on your body absurd. Now all he said was, “when you get a tattoo, shout out loud three four times to yourself that I am going to have this for my entire life now, before getting one and if you have enough sense, you would walk out before he opens the catalogue of weirdness.” And if you think it’s just the audience he makes fun of, you are mistaken. He didn’t spare his ex-wife and neither himself. He called it a miracle of him getting married to a Latin girl and having a kid with her. So you see, at 43 neither does he mind making fun of others nor does he mind being mocked at by himself.
There were no repetitiveness nor boring moments, in fact when he said goodnight, we’ll were trying not to accept that the show ended. Thanks to NH7 for getting the notorious Russell peters to Chennai. We enjoyed it all laughs and it was worth the traffic and travel I would say.
There were no repetitiveness nor boring moments, in fact when he said goodnight, we’ll were trying not to accept that the show ended. Thanks to NH7 for getting the notorious Russell peters to Chennai. We enjoyed it all laughs and it was worth the traffic and travel I would say.