Douglas Stevens,[1] better known by his stage name Red Peters, is an American musician and comedian.

He was the host of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour from 2005–2013 on Sirius XM, and a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show.

Stevens attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston from 1968–1971, majoring in film.

[2] Stevens left art school in late 1971 to go on the road with his first music group, Gross National Productions (or "GNP") as lead vocalist under the stage name "Matt Maverick.

[4] Off the album, the band toured nationally, both headlining as well as opening for major acts such as Lee Michaels, Tommy James, Sha Na Na, Badfinger, Spirit, Jeremy Steig, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

As Peters told Outer Shell Magazine, "My music director, Babe Marino, and I were messing around with a big band arrangement one day and the words just flowed out.

In 2010, another compilation from his radio show, called Red Peters Presents The Summer Song Sizzler, was released.

The company specializes in commercial music production for television, radio, corporate videos, advertising, and motion pictures.

[14] For the 2009 baseball season, Grenga and Stevens created pregame, in-game and post-game music for NESN's broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games.

He was featured in a live segment from the radio show, and in music video footage of his song, "The Ballad of a Dog Named Stains".

[21] In August 2011, while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, Peters is reported to have accidentally farted in front of Barack Obama.

"Mr. Obama was forced from the fiction aisle to the self-help section until the Secret Service deemed the area was clear," Peters told the Boston Herald.