{"id":14230,"date":"2010-07-23T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2010-07-23T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T20:00:32","slug":"tgif-russell-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/23\/tgif-russell-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: Russell Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vw6RgIf6epQ&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><em>Indian accent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was hard not to be moved by the testimonials for the Centre for Comparative Literature this past week. Olga Bazilevica, for example, cited the Centre as representing everything she&#8217;s come to love about this country: our peaceful diversity, our generous expressions of tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s Friday and this is our comedy slot, so let&#8217;s laugh a little at Canada (affectionately, of course) by way of our hottest standup comedian, Russell Peters &#8212; the guy who, even though he is of Indian descent, has the name of a WASP banker.<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, Peters on the white Canadian accent, racial mixing, and gay Indians.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJXedRX-0Ro<\/p>\n<p><em>White Canadian  accent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aDl8unyFE0c&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Beige&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RqESVHhzeyU&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><em>Gay  Indians<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vw6RgIf6epQ&amp;feature=related Indian accent It was hard not to be moved by the testimonials for the Centre for Comparative Literature this past week. 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