Russell Peters, the Canadian comedian who made the first Netflix original stand-up special, brought his Relax World Tour to OVO Arena Wembley.
Russell Peters, the Canadian comedian who made the first Netflix original stand-up special, played OVO Arena Wembley on Saturday 17 May 2025. It was the London date of his Relax World Tour.
Peters was born in Toronto in 1970 to Anglo-Indian parents and grew up in Brampton, Ontario. He began doing stand-up at open mics in Toronto in 1989, at 19, and spent the next 15 years playing clubs in Canada and Britain.
His turning point was a 2004 special for the Canadian series Comedy Now! Clips of it spread on YouTube, and his tours that followed became the specials Outsourced, Red, White and Brown and The Green Card Tour.
He has won Gemini, Peabody and Emmy awards, the last two for producing the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution. In 2017 his series The Indian Detective set a viewing record for the Canadian network CTV.
His London audience goes back years. In 2009 he sold more than 16,000 tickets for one show at The O2, a British record for a single comedy performance at the time. The Relax tour had opened in Chicago the previous October.