Russell Peters: Almost Famous

The guy has some tired jokes, that draw a laugh, but otherwise he is plain unfunny. He attempts to engage the audience which is very hit and miss, some of it cringeworthy and embarrassing, for Russell himself. Its not like anyone would see this guy twice, i lasted 15 mins watching him and tired of him very quickly ,so im not sure an hour would be possible let alone half an hour It seems he just can't evolve, then again there are 7 billion people out there so he will always get fresh new suckers,ummm i mean audiences

I have to agree with the other reviewers that this feels a bit repetitive. I had high hopes for this show as I like Russell Peters and to be honest I hoped he would try something different, just another subject than the usual different races jokes but he didn't. So it just feels like a déjà-vu. I loved his first show Outsourced from 2006, that was simply his best. The second show I watched from him, Notorious from 2013 was good as well but you already had that feeling his material is kinda the same but it was still good. I don't say Almost Famous didn't get me laughing (those extremely negative scores are ridiculous by the way), but I was just hoping for another approach, just to see if he had it in him. But I still had fun, his interaction with the audience is always good, and so is his improvisation, but like said before it's a bit of a déjà-vu. If you never saw anything from Russell Peters I recommend you watch his first show, that still remains his best.

I stumbled upon the 2016 stand-up comedy special "Russell Peters: Almost Famous" by random chance whilst perusing the Netflix catalogue of stand-up comedy shows. And not being familiar with Russell Peters, I opted to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he had to offer.

Starting out the show with making fun of people in the audience was a strange way to start a show, and sort of set a somewhat awkward atmosphere right from the very beginning. I would assume that you would have more respect for people showing up to watch your comedy act and actually pay money to do so, but then again, who am I to say what is right and wrong?

He is good at immitating stereotypical Indians, which certainly brought a smile to my lips. The material and contents of his show was good, and there were some good and genuine laughs throughout the course of the 73 minutes that the show ran for. Russell Peters is definitely good at setting up the jokes and delivering the punchlines.

All in all, a fair enough stand-up comedy show, but I just don't understand the heckling of the audience part.

My rating of "Russell Peters: Almost Famous" lands on a five out of ten stars.

There's no doubt in my mind that absolutely gets genuine laughs. Not laughs at his jokes, but laughs nonetheless. I am disgusted in myself for actually watching this trash, and even more disgusted that this hack has the freaking audacity to make statements about the ratings being sabotaged by the alt-right, and that they're not a reflection of the quality of the show.

Man, you stink. There's no vendetta.

I will make this review short and sweet. Remember the genuine laughs you had when watching a Russel peters special for the first time? You won't have them again. If this will be your first Russel peters special then i confidently say go ahead with it as not many have explored his range/style in comedy. For the rest of you, his material fails to progress as opposed to great comedians (george Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, bill hicks etc). His focus is mainly STILL race, even though he was able to come out with some new jokes yet they still seem expected or repetitive after a while. The shows' area of strength remains the part were he interacts with live audience, making of fun of them in a light fashioned way highlighting how natural of a comedian he is .

Overall, the show was okay given the same source of material he always used but never worthy of mentioning in the same list of great specials.