This is Peters’ 20th anniversary tour, and his performance will feature his ‘greatest hits’ along with some new material since his visit last year.

Peters who writes his own acts is very popular for his in-your-face mockery of racial stereotypes and his cracks on the cultural divide between different ethnicities. “Ninety-five per cent my act is based on real-life experiences of meeting people. But it is the exaggeration of those experiences that make the act interesting,” admits Peters, who says he lets spontaneity get the best out of him. “I don’t think about the script once I get on stage. I just go with the flow,” he says, whose humour even parodies his parents with the signature “Somebody gotta get hurt real bad”.

Peters, who at present lives in Los Angeles, was born in Toronto and is of Indian descent with his father born in Mumbai and his mother in Kolkata. Speaking of which he says, “All of my mother’s family, going back to my great-grandmother were born in Kolkata. Even my brother, Clayton, who’s also my manager, was born in Kolkata. I have uncles, aunts and several cousins who still live in there.”