Russell Peters

last night the husband and i had our first 'date' after having abdullah. we got tics to see russell peters, a canadian-indian standup comic. we didnt know where in the world was sg chinese orchestra hall is except for its in shenton way. so took a train and got off at raffles and started our trek towards lau pa sat.

anyhow, after walking for quite sometime, i had a feeling that we were lost. but then we sighted a group of indians walking. the husband and i looked at each other and said, "Let's follow them!" we stalked them from behind and pretty soon, more and more crowds of nindians started appearing and lo behold, we finally reached s.c.o. hall. looks like the entire macha community turned up in full force to support their 'boy' who had done their race proud. much respect to the indian community for showing support for their boy (apparently all 5 shows were sold out and 60% tickets were bought by the indians). i dont think malays will ever show this kind of support to their own ethnic talent here in sg. just look at the empty seats whenever a melayu theatre group puts up a show. how dismal.

russell's set was priceless. i was laughing so hard that i hurt my jaw and stomach. he was telling abt how he wished bollywood would make porn as well and some elderly nindians in the audience were giving him the shocked face. he retorted to their expressions: "We nindians are prudes when it comes to talking about sex. we dont talk about sex. which is pretty hypocritical for a nation that is the second most populous in the world. there are 1.2 billion nindians in nindia alone. somebody's definitely f#cking!"

damn priceless stuff. and i love it when it poked fun at chinese. his chinese accent was crazy! he was asking why does the world's most populous nation in the world has never entered the world cup. "How hard was it to find 11 men out of 2 billion people in China to play soccer?" he continued with saying that china will never enter the world cup because when it comes to group huddle, the chinese will.. squat instead! and he proceeded to menyangkung and in his funniest chinese accent, "You kick the ball to that asshole."

at one point, he asked the audience, "Is there any arabs in the house?" the husband actually shouted "Wooh! Yeaaah!" to which russell replied, "Well i aint making fun of you arabs, man. i dont wanna die!"

i laughed so hard till i thought i was gonna die.

omg, i am still smiling from last night's show. you guys should honestly watch his stand-up comedy routine now available on DVD. we can so relate to his jokes cuz him being an asian and his materials were crazy! would love to blog more about his jokes but i am afraid of a lawsuit from russell himself. or maybe he will send me a signed copy of his DVD for the plug i did in this post. well mr peters, i hope you are reading this when you googled for your name!"