Russell Peters, an Canadian-Indian comedian who’s segments have circulated around the web for over a year, has finally landed himself a standup comedy “movie” on Comedy Central. Skatter Tech has been hosting both his Canadian “Comedy Now” show and his New York performance for over a year. Anyways his new movie will air on Comedy Central on August 26, 2006 at 11:00pm (pacific) check your local listings for the channel and exact timings. Also note that “Russell Peters: Outsourced” will be available on DVD and Audio CD on August 29, 2006. You can either pre-order it from Amazon or wait until it reaches stores.

Update: See Video ‘Outsourced’ Here!
Buy It Now: Outsourced DVD ($11.99)

Links: RussellPeters.com | Yahoo TV (info)
Related: Comedy Now Segment | New York Segment

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The newly aired “Russell Peters: Outsourced” video, which recently aired on Comedy Central has unfortunately been requested to be removed from Skatter Tech and YouTube by Warner Brothers and CMI Management Services. We don’t really want to get stuck with lawsuits, so we have had to remove the content. Comedy Central doesn’t seem to be airing “Outsourced” anytime soon, so if you want to catch his segment you’ll either have to purchase the DVD from Amazon.com or get a hold of it elsewhere. Sorry for the inconvenience!

On March 9, 2006, Forbes published their annual report on the world’s richest people. (Entitled: The World’s Billionaires) According to Forbes there were only 140 billionaires just 20 years ago, but the number rose to over 476 in the last 3 years and is now 793 in “06. India’s market grew by over 54% over the last 12 months and has now become the home to 10 billionaires. Other countries that recently got a boost in their economy include China and Russia. Bill Gates, the first on the list, has been number one for his twelfth consective year. (see link below for full list)

The Top Five: (Name – Country – Source – Value in Billions)

1. William Gates – USA – Microsoft – $50
2. Warren Buffet – USA – Berkshire – $42
3. Carlos Slim Helu – Mexico – Telecom – $30
4. Ingvar Kamprad – Sweden – Ikea – $28
5. Lakshmi Mittal – India – Steel – $23

The next five people on the list are Paul Allen, Brenard Arnault, Bin Talal, Kenneth Thomson, and Li Ka-shing respectively. Another notable person is Albert von Thurn, 22, who is now the youngest billionaire. Twelve people who left the list last year returned for some more, while another 39 were dropped from it. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, are both now valued at over $13 billion.

Links: The World’s Bilionaire (Forbes) | The Complete List
Related: Forbes’s Rich List | All Forbes’s Lists

There have been many Russell Peters Videos circulating around the web for over an year now. The most famous of his stand-ups was his ~45 minute show in Canada on Comedy Now! (that can be downloaded from this site as well) Russell Peters is an Indian Comedian, who has many great jokes about the Indian culture as well as makes plenty of hillarious insults at other ethinic groups. He has also appeared in the Wild 94.9 Comdey Jam at the Shoreline Amphitheatere (Mountain View, CA), along with Carlos Mencia, DL Hughley, and many more. (over 20,000 people showed up to this event, which was also a Hurricane Katrina benfit show) Anyways, the video is 58 minutes long and is composed of many new jokes. Although it is not as great as his other performances, it is still worth the watch.

Note: This video is way to large and would cost a large amount of money to pay for bandwith. Therefore the video is currently being hosted by “Google Video” and thanks to Google you can stream the video at up to 200kbps. The video will play in you browser through Google Video as long as you have both Macromedia Flash and Java Runtime installed. If you would like to download a copy, just click [download] on the Google Video page on the right side. PC, Mac, Sony PSP, and Apple iPod Video formats are available!

Link: NEW – Russell Peters in NY via Google Video
Related: Original 45-Min Russell Peters Video (.rm – realplayer required)

Update: “Russell Peters: Outsourced” Now Available