Russell Peters Outsourced 2006 Dvd Releases
Search: For: » » Russell Peters - Outsourced Russell Peters - Outsourced // Unrated // August 29, 2006 List Price: $14.98 Buy now and save at Review by posted September 28, 2006 C O N T E N T V I D E O A U D I O E X T R A S R E P L A Y A D V I C E Skip It E - M A I L P R I N T The Show: Up and coming comedian Russell Peters, a Toronto born comic of Anglo-Indian descent, has released his first comedy concert on DVD. Outsourced was filmed in 2006 in San Francisco and Peters had the audience in stitches for most of the show. Unfortunately the same can't be said for the home audience, because I barely laughed. Most of Peter's act consists of observations about race and how the various cultures of the world interact. What this boils down to is the comedian selecting a stereotype for each nationality and making fun of them. The problem is, most of this type of humor has been done by years and it seems a bit old.
Details about Russell Peters - Outsourced (DVD, 2006) Russell Peters - Outsourced (DVD, 2006) Seller information. Details about Russell Peters - Outsourced (DVD, 2006) Russell Peters - Outsourced (DVD, 2006) Seller information. Russell Peters: Outsourced (2006) is a movie genre Comedy produced by Warner Bros. Was released in United States of America on 2006-08-01 with director Alan.
During the show Peters makes fun of some of the audience members with comments like 'He's black and Latino. Man, your credit must suck.' Later he asks if there are 'Any Koreans in the house? (a few cheers) Alright, that's two closed dry cleaners.' The ironic thing is that because he's of Indian descent, he can get away with it. Sam Kinison was criticized for making fun of the way Vietnamese convenience store clerks talk two decades ago.
Peters has his own take on it: 'When Vietnamese speak English they speak it really fast like they know it. But they end up speaking English so fast that it ends up sounding like Vietnamese all over again.'
I haven't heard of anyone complaining about this shtick. I will admit that it is less offensive, and less funny, than Kinison's screaming 'I should have shot you in Danang when I had the chance!' I guess that's the problem I had with this concert. I didn't mind that Peters made fun of various races or what they did for a living ('There are no Mexicans in Canada.
You should see how messed up our lawns are.' ) It's just that it didn't seem original or on the edge. Maybe in today's politically correct society this seems gutsy, but it just came across as tired to me. I mean, he even makes fun of the way white people dance. Hasn't that been done to death? There was one bit that I really found humorous, and ironically he said that this concert was the last time he was going to do it. It concerns a friend of his when he was a kid who was never spanked.
The kid told Russell that all he had to do was say 'Fuck You!' The next time his parents tried to spank him and they'd leave him alone. Well.it didn't work.
This was a funny routine and reminded me a lot of Bill Cosby's material. It's too bad the rest of the concert wasn't as entertaining. The DVD: Audio: The disc offers viewers the choice between a stereo mix and a 5.1 DD track. There really wasn't a lot of difference between the two. The 5.1 track threw some of the sounds from the audience to the rears, but these were at a pretty low level and the clapping and laughter was mainly in the front. The audio quality was fine.
Being a spoken word concert the speakers weren't given a workout but Russell's routine sounded fine. There wasn't any distortion or dropouts or background noise, but then again being a recent concert I wasn't expecting any. There are subtitles in Hindi, Madrid and Cantonese.
For some reason English subtitles were omitted. Video: The full frame video was fine for a stand up comedy routine. Nothing special, but there really wasn't anything wrong with the picture either. An average looking disc. Extras: This disc also includes a commentary track by Russell Peters and his brother who is also his agent. I was awfully interested in listening to this.
I mean, what would a comedian say about his own act? Would he discuss the genesis of the jokes? Maybe he'd just spout out another hour's worth of funny material. That'd be great. Well Russell chose neither of those options. In this commentary he doesn't really say much of anything.
Outsourced 2006 Cast
He talks about the people in the audience, starts telling some stories and then gets side tracked and never finishes them, and that's about it. He also gives his best guess as to what was cut when the show aired on Comedy Central, but he's not sure. 'I think they cut this bit. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did.' There are long gaps in the track where no one has anything to say.
Russell Peters Outsourced Full Video
Overall, this is a lousy commentary. Final Thoughts: The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the value of a stand-up routine is in the laughing. I smiled a couple of times and laughed once at the end, but that was it.
I found most of Peter's racial observations worn and tired (Indian people are cheap, white people can't dance, and Orientals talk funny) and the jokes really lacked a punch. If you really enjoy following new comedians this might be worth a rental, but otherwise look elsewhere for your laughs. What Do You Think?