Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'russellpeters'
July 30, 2007
Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose—unless you were at the 25th (and Toronto's first) Just For Laughs festival, which took over Toronto this weekend. The three-day event saw performances......
Continue Reading "The Daily Photoist: DSC_5251"July 28, 2007
This weekend, Yonge Street is bustling with all things wacky as the first annual Toronto Just For Laughs festival takes over the city. The street festival kicked off last night with a free Russell Peters show with guests Jo Koy and the Doo Wops. Dundas Square was packed with more than 15,000 people eager to be entertained by the comics, and they definitely were not disappointed. After the show the crowd stuck around to......
Continue Reading "Funny Monsters Take Over Toronto"June 28, 2007
The joke goes: "The women in Montreal are so beautiful. Where do you send all the ugly women? To Toronto?" In the Hot Docs smash movie Let's All Hate Toronto, Brampton comedian Russell Peters tells the joke as evidence towards the animosity Canadians have for Toronto. Rob Spence and Albert Nerenberg, the directors of Let's All Hate Toronto were offended as well. They brought forth a petition to the Just for Laughs comedy festival to......
Continue Reading "Let's All Love Toronto Women"