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The Treatment

Russell Peters, "Deported"

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Russell Peters talks about causing trouble and his new highly personal Amazon comedy special, "Deported".

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.6

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Brampton is in the house.

0:18.1

Beetown, son.

0:19.0

Forgive my imprecision. In the person of comedian Russell Peters, who's new special on Amazon, is Deport.

0:24.8

First of all, it's a pleasure to have you here.

0:26.9

Elvis, it is always great seeing you.

0:28.9

I was telling you before we came on the air, Elvis Mitchell was the only guy for the past 25

0:35.0

years almost, who always consistently spoke to me at the Just for Lafts Comedy Festival.

0:41.1

And he had no reason to.

0:43.0

And that's how I knew he's not a clout chaser.

0:45.1

He just spoke to people that were real.

0:47.0

A clout chaser.

0:47.9

That's a Canadian term.

0:48.9

It's a very modern thing, clout chasing.

0:52.6

This is the thing I always wanted to ask you, how much do you love causing trouble, stirring things up?

0:56.7

I like stirring things up, you know?

0:58.8

I am hip-hop.

1:00.9

You know what I mean?

1:01.5

And hip-hop was all about stirring things up.

1:05.0

It's kind of like punk rock in that regard.

1:07.6

It was about going against what people were doing.

1:10.4

It's about questioning authority. It's about going against what people were doing. It's about questioning authority.

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