Carrie Battan interviews the standup comedian Matt Rife about his comedy, cancel culture, and his new Netflix special, “Lucid.”
Rife is known for his crowd work, and tonight, the sold-out venue was filled with some forty-three hundred ticket holders who wanted a rowdy back-and-forth with him. At one point in the set, Rife likened acrylic nails to Bugles. “You guys know what Bugles are?” The crowd cheered. “I didn’t know if that reference was going to land or not,” he said. “You guys are white trash. That is a gas-station chip!” One woman in the crowd began a series of interjections.
“I almost exclusively performed at Black comedy shows and Black clubs,” he told me. “Black comics always just gave me the opportunity: ‘Hey, you want to come do my show down the street?’ They were the first comics to ever pay me for doing stage time.” These experiences also helped shape Rife’s comic sensibility. “Nobody roasts each other like Black people,” he said. “I’ll never be as funny as a regular Black dude.
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