Matt Rife on dealing with haters: ‘Someone’s always gonna complain’
nypost.com19 million TikTok followers, an ongoing world tour, and two Netflix specials. His second special, “Matt Rife: Lucid – A Crowd Work Special,” is now streaming and will be out on Tuesday.
Filmed at The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, it’s the platform’s first-ever crowd work special (when a comedian directly interacts with the audience, riffing off of jokes with them in real-time). “My life has changed a lot the last couple of years,” Rife told The Post via email.“I was able to buy my mom a house, employ my friends, and accomplish dreams I never thought possible – like selling out The Hollywood Bowl.
But I think the moment I guess I thought ‘I made it’ was when Samuel L. Jackson followed me on Instagram. I would’ve never guessed he knew what Instagram even was.
I love him.” Rife said that as his success has been a whirlwind, his friends have kept him grounded. “They pick me up from the dark times and they help me appreciate the good times.
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