I've been a fan of Russel Peters for a few years now, but after watching the Green Card Tour - Live from the 02 Arena I was very, very disappointed. From the very beginning it is obvious that Russel is not prepared or completely out of inspiration. He makes long pauses thinking hard what else to say. His jokes over the front-rows audience are outright insulting while being unfunny. Overall, I don't remember if I laughed at all. Russel was jumping from subject to subject and it was making hard to follow his stories through which would sometimes abruptly end without a logical ending. Felt incomplete and boring. (Maybe partially the result of desperate editing?) I was, like, feeling really sorry for the guy. 30 thousand people at the 02 Arena in London, first time ever to be sold out by a standup comedian for two nights and... a very weak performance, unfunny cheap dirty jokes? Almost all jokes are 'below the waist'... With a few old jokes inserted here and there. The ending was abrupt and beyond pathetic... After watching all of it I felt really bad for wasting one hour of my life to watch such complete trash show. And considering that they edited the contents of two night shows and made it into one 1 hr DVD, it's like, what the live audience had to go through if THAT was the best of the two nights? Pathetic. Russel should turn solely to movie acting or whatever, but if he is to continue standup comedy he should do a much better job unless he wants to bury his Standup career completely. This is such utter disrespect to all of his fans!
Russell Peters: The Green Card Tour - Live from The O2 Arena
(2011 TV Special)
Trash
9 January 2012
Warning: Spoilers