Comedian Russel Peters - Why Arab Men Will Never Say No

Arab men will never say “No. I don’t know.” They will never say no and they will never admit to not knowing something.

The Comedian Russel Peters holds no boundaries with his jokes. He points out the downsides and upsides of each people group. Peters’ comedy focuses mainly on ethnicity. As a man of mixed race, himself, he tries to remove the unspoken barriers of racial tension. In order to do so, he takes a counter-productive approach. He humorously points out the flaws, characteristics and stereotypes of many different races. His hope in doing so, is to directly expose the common stereotypes of each race and force people to think about how they may have let these stereotypes rule their opinion of specific people group.

Russell Peters was born and raised by his Indian immigrant parents, in Toronto, Canada, and knows what it is like to not find his identity in one race. His jokes often allude to his struggle with belonging to one certain ethnic group. Because race is something that does not define him, he notices the dividing lines between other people of different races very clearly.

Because he does not work from a script, he often molds his act around the audience’s racial dynamic. He jokes with the people sitting close enough to answer his overly blunt questions.

Watch the video to hear some of his jokes: