Stand-up comedian and viral TikTok star Matt Rife has signed a deal with Netflix for two specials, including the platform’s first crowdwork special.
Rife has been incredibly successful on social media, especially his TikTok account. 18 million followers. This led to his November 2023 Netflix special, “Natural Selection.” variety The report received more than 10 million views in the first few weeks. The special ranked in the Netflix top 10 in 42 countries.
Netflix offered Mr. Rife two special shows. One of these will be the platform’s first foray into crowdwork, where comedians interact with viewers throughout the show. Scheduled to air in 2024, the first special will be filmed in Charlotte, North Carolina and directed by a fellow comic artist. Eric Griffin.
But Rife’s feature was not without controversy, with the media taking offense to a joke about a waitress with a black eye.
Reiff posted a response to the outrage on his social media, which drew even more gasps.
At Huffington Post,old“Apologising, Mr. Reiff posted an image from the stand-up special on his social media pages, writing, “If you have been offended by a joke I have told, here is a link to my public apology. I’ll leave it,” she captioned it.
The link said, “Tap to fix your problem.”
Critics were likely even more upset when they saw that the link led to a website selling “special needs helmets.”
Ever since the comedian’s career started reaching a tipping point, outlets have consistently tried to find ways to break up Life.
rolling stone called his comedy “sanitized shock value” and said the comedian wanted viewers to think he was edgier than he actually was.
Viewers also tried to assign racism to the comedian in a past post on X (then on Twitter), where he said that if he had a superpower, he would “jump higher and run faster. Deaf…I am,” he commented. He will be called ‘the Negro,'” he wrote.
Exit things Mr Reiff asked if there was a “problem” and whether there had actually been any changes since his younger appointment. This was in addition to complaints that he referred to gay men on Snapchat as “the only people who will let me get my hair cut.”
Just two weeks before Life’s two special offers were announced. distract He declared that his career had “fallen apart.”
The brakes have not yet been applied to attempts to cancel the event. Since Rife was scheduled to perform at Indiana University, some students took the opportunity to provide Rife with a re-education, as did many media outlets.
A representative from the school said, “If he is willing to learn, he should definitely be welcomed.” Neurodiversity Coalition. “But if he’s not going to learn from what he says, he doesn’t need to be on a campus like Indiana University. We need to do our best, and that means vetting who we invite to campus.” It starts with doing this,” the official said. Abe Shapiro said. day student in indiana.
As for his crowdwork specials, this style has grown in popularity since the comedian. andrew schultz He was one of the first — if not the first — to pull it off in 2019. His special program has been viewed nearly 7 million times on YouTube.
Life’s previous tour, the ProbleMATTic World Tour, included four sold-out shows at the Dolby Theatre, six sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall, and five sold-out shows at Mohegan Sun Arena.
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