Comedian Russell Peters GOES OFF on Trevor Noah

[Miggs]

Foreals worst thing that happened to him was someone stole his popsicle at his pool party....

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

How do you know who does something better when you've only heard of 1 out of the 2 people?

I just heard the audio

 

[Doomsday]

Trevor Noah is trash. I agree with another poster I didn't like how he threw blacks under the bus.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Trevor is not "colored"

That is a cultural distinction.

Trevor is mixed (first generation) and he grew up in a black township with his granny and mother.

He falls under the "colored" designation in South Africa.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Why is a Hindu calling himself “Russel Peters”?

He's not Hindu he was raised Catholic
And Russell Peter's is his real name

 

[trick]

He talks about growing up around jamaicans as a caveat so he can do black style humor IE white jokes and cater to black audiences....As soon as he made money he stopped all that married a hispanic and started doing tyical middle aged cac comedy about married life...I saw thru his shyt from the beginning.

That first special was just him basically doing a bunch of stereotypes and the jokes hit because the jokes were so Toronto centric. His other specials were pure trash. He's really not THAT different from Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah's standup routine and Russell Peters's routine is really not that different...

 

[Miggs]

That first special was just him basically doing a bunch of stereotypes and the jokes hit because the jokes were so Toronto centric. His other specials were pure trash. He's really not THAT different from Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah's standup routine and Russell Peters's routine is really not that different...

I never thought the asian voices like chinese people and indian people plus the im gonna hurt you routines were funny,5-6 years his entire tour was trying to mimick the accent and flavor of locals....Once people got tired of the voices he was done....and hes been trying to break into movies and TV for a few years...and his brother/manager Rohan is a fakkit btw...

Im sure he still gets half a million per show internationally but i know for a fact that aint what he wants to be doing anymore...

 

[Payroll]

He falls under the "colored" designation in South Africa.

He does not identify as being coloured....he identifies as being mixed race and culturally he is black, his mother is Xhosa I believe. He stated this publicly.

Coloured is more than being mixed, it's multi-generational and they have they own separate culture and identity.

I'm South African...btw.

 

[I Really Mean It]

He does not identify as being coloured....he identifies as being mixed race and culturally he is black, his mother is Xhosa I believe. He stated this publicly.

Coloured is more than being mixed, it's multi-generational and they have they own separate culture and identity.

I'm South African...btw.

I don't care what he identifies as. Many biracials in America identify as "black," but they aren't, which their experience in America's system of white supremacy attests to. The same can be applied to Trevor.

 

[trick]

I never thought the asian voices like chinese people and indian people plus the im gonna hurt you routines were funny,5-6 years his entire tour was trying to mimick the accent and flavor of locals....Once people got tired of the voices he was done....and hes been trying to break into movies and TV for a few years...and his brother/manager Rohan is a fakkit btw...Dude was trying to be the indian Dame Dash....

Im sure he still gets half a million per show internationally but i know for a fact that aint what he wants to be doing anymore...

Honestly I never thought it was funny either. It really bothered me he would say the n word in his standup too. I just remember in high school, people would quote his standup all the time, especially brown kids and I would ask some of my black friends why they would never check these guys...I didn't like that shyt at all

 

[Payroll]

I don't care what he identifies as. Many biracials in America identify as "black," but they aren't, which their experience in America's system of white supremacy attests to. The same can be applied to Trevor.

He doesn't identify as black...I just told you he identifies himself as first generational mixed race...which is not the same thing as being colored.

 

[mbewane]

Russell Peters in an unfunny Canadian.

Trevor Noah has been funnier since he started the Daily Show, but his first big U.S. comedy special rubbed me the wrong way. It was a lot of him imitating black Americans in a way that came off as derisive (despite his profession of growing up an admirer of black American culture). And all for the benefit of a majority white audience.

AA artists been making fun/stereotyping Africa and Africans for ages. If it's friendly banter one way, it's friendly banter the other too

 

[African Peasant]

Stand up comedy stopped being funny a few years ago.

A lot of Coli threads >>> stand up.

 

[3rdWorld]

He's not Hindu he was raised Catholic
And Russell Peter's is his real name

Still a coolie

 

[Payroll]

I like some of that stuff. I'm not a regular Last Week Tonight viewer, but it's something I will watch on occasion. I think John Oliver is funny and the writing staff does a good job.

There's something exploitative about Trevor Noah though. There's nothing wrong with being a mixed person or a black person from a distant, not entirely related culture. But if you enter this culture you need to have respect for the history and the people who laid the foundation. I have the same issue with Afro-Latinos living in this country (which I am) who don't show proper respect to the black American struggle.

Trevor Noah could have easily taken on racism (institutional, social, etc.) in the U.S. and drawn parallels to apartheid South Africa (not fundamentally distinct) but instead he chose to do hackey impersonations of black people utilizing the same "ebonics" heavy bullshyt that white comedians use when they want to reduce us to a cheap punchline. I can't warm up to his humor as a result.

This has always been his schtick.

Even before he moved to the states.

Except AA culture wasn't the conduit.

 

[3rdWorld]

AA artists been making fun/stereotyping Africa and Africans for ages. If it's friendly banter one way, it's friendly banter the other too

I recall West Africans being seriously mad at Eddie for wearing a Dashiki after the whole Butt Naked African Woman riding a Zebra joke..