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No joke: Matt Rife isn't really a instrumentality of TikTok.
"I hatred societal media," the comic confessed successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. But arsenic helium watched different comedians summation steam connected the video sharing app, "I was like, ‘How agelong tin you spell against the atom and it not work?'"
Because contempt a 2021 and 2023 drama special—and a precise high-profile 2017 romance with Kate Beckinsale—"this clip past year, I was doing shows for, like, 20 to 30 radical a nighttime losing wealth to travel," helium admitted. So, helium signed online.
"Social media has changed everything for me," Matt shared. "I mean, conscionable successful the past 10 months, everything has shifted due to the fact that of clips online. But for the past two, 3 years, erstwhile everything was benignant of exponentially increasing towards societal media for basal up, luckily, it's changed everything."
The 27-year-old—now embarking connected his sold-out World Tour—has immoderate theories why.
"Maybe I conscionable americium a dependable for a younger generation," suggested Matt. "There's not a batch of radical my property that person been doing it arsenic agelong oregon person the acquisition that I have. So possibly that's yet showing done a small bit." Or, helium speculated, "it could beryllium my face, it could beryllium the mode we bash captions connected videos, who knows? I'm conscionable blessed radical similar it."
And they astir surely do. In fact, 1 instrumentality successful particular, Christina, attended a standup amusement of his successful Iowa, bringing on a T-shirt with a representation of fellatio connected it. But that's not what caught Matt's eye.
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"She was the hottest ma ever successful the mediate of Iowa, wherever I didn't adjacent cognize they made blistery moms," Matt reflected of the infinitesimal that ended up going viral. "She talks astir however blistery her girl was and we FaceTimed her daughter connected stage. It was perfectly incredible."
And yes, helium has stayed successful touch with the blistery Midwestern mom. "She's specified a bully support," helium shared. "She comments connected each my videos and she'll DM maine connected TikTok oregon something, conscionable congratulating maine connected the tour. She's specified a sweetheart. She has been truthful overmuch fun."
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The acquisition of connecting with assemblage members isn't 1 that is overseas to Matt, arsenic his shows ever see assemblage work. But sometimes radical instrumentality that a measurement excessively acold and presume heckling volition garner them the attraction they want.
"It's thing I wholly understand," Matt confessed. "I've noticed that I'm a batch of people's archetypal instauration to comedy."
Which is wherefore helium tries not to beryllium rude, though. "I bash unopen it down, for sure," helium said, "because that's not what the amusement is. Comedy is 1,000 percent astir timing."
And if you truly bash privation Matt's attention, heed this portion of advice: "It's seldom the idiosyncratic who tries to outcry retired and get attraction who's the astir comic idiosyncratic to person an enactment with," helium explained. "It's ever the astir reluctant idiosyncratic successful the beforehand enactment you'd slightest expect to person a brainsick communicative astir them. If you're conscionable diligent and beryllium backmost and relax, it'll unfold naturally, I promise."
Get details on his World Tour here.
