Matt Rife

Matt Rife is the textbook case of a comedian made by the algorithm. Those viral crowd-work clips turned him from a grinding club comic into an arena-filling phenomenon almost overnight, and his quick, flirty improvisation with audiences is genuinely sharp. The flip side is that the sudden fame and the 'Natural Selection' backlash showed how fast the internet can turn. I think his crowd work is the real strength, looser and funnier than his scripted material. Whatever you make of the controversies, he proved that a single platform can build a stand-up career at a scale the old comedy ladder never could.

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Matt Rife (born September 10, 1995, in Columbus, Ohio) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. After years working clubs and appearing on shows such as MTV's 'Wild 'N Out', he became one of the most talked-about comedians of the early 2020s through viral crowd-work clips on TikTok and other social platforms. His 2023 Netflix special 'Natural Selection' drew both a massive young fan base and significant controversy.

Name (English)

Matt Rife

Name (Japanese)

マット・ライフ

Reading

まっと・らいふ

Born

September 10, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

Television actor / Actor / Comedian / Film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Pig

• Official sitehttps://www.mattrifeofficial.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mattrife/
• Xhttps://x.com/mattrife
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Rife
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113632706

Tags

• From Ohio
• Television actor
• Actor
• Comedian

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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