I just don’t find the chap funny at all. His stand-up feels bland, unoriginal, and way too reliant on crowd work that doesn’t really go anywhere. Half the time, it feels like he’s just flirting on stage rather than delivering actual comedy.
I genuinely don’t get what the buzz is all about. If he didn’t look the way he does, I doubt he’d be getting half the attention he gets. It feels like his fame is more about being eye candy than being a genuinely talented comic. Maybe that’s harsh, but from what I’ve seen, there are dozens of comics out there who are way funnier and deserve the spotlight more.
But hey, maybe I’m just not the target audience.
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This is unpopular?
His fan-base is not made up of women.
He considers Dane Cook to be one of his idols. That tells you everything you need to know.
Who’s matt rife?
Lots of good looking guys out there who aren’t funny, let I’m laughing at him? He’s a llllooonnnngggg way from best comedian ever but he’s OK.
Like every comedian, some people don’t find him funny and some people do. As long as he’s got a consistent base of fans laughing at his jokes, that’s enough to be conscidered funny. People get called funny for a lot less.
The quick shorts that pop up are always hecklers in his shows, IMO, that’s where his fan base comes from, which is the need to tell people off for sticking their nose in your business.
this might’ve been unpopular 2-3 years ago when he was first blowing up, but definitely not nowadays lol
I think it’s probably a combination of his face and knowing how to leverage the internet to get attention.
I agree it’s not because he’s funny. I don’t think he’s funny.
Most popular opinion on the internet lol
This post is about a year too late, he’s sort of dropped off at this point. You were probably right before his Netflix special though.
He is a little funny. He’s good with crowdworking.
But yeh I’m sure even he knows why he’s this famous.
He’s okay. He’s moderately funny and he has had a lot of facial work done to get that pretty.
His fan-base used to be made up of women, then he decided to shit on them from a great height. Now his fan-base is made of people who enjoy the right wing grift.
His good looks are all due to plastic surgery. The pics before surgery…I’m sure he would like those erased from the internet.
He’s not good looking though. As a man I find him weird looking.
He 100% sucks and looks like an ugly version of Handsome Squidward with too much jaw work done
Is it 2022? Did we all just go back in time?
Never heard if him.
Looks helped for sure, but that’s a fact of life. I’ve liked about 70% of what I’ve seen though that’s only clips not a full standup.
His entire shtick was capitalising off his ‘glow-up’. It was never fresh, but it got old real quick.
Granted I’ve never watched his stand up specials but his crowd work is funny. I’ve only ever seen him in short clips on YouTube so I’m sure I’m just getting the “best of” version of his shows. Honestly I just don’t care how he is appealing to an audience. If I find him funny I find him funny. You can have a differing opinion and that’s fine too. Just seems weird to complain about on the internet. Just don’t listen to Matt rife? I never see him or hear his stuff unless it comes up in my YouTube shorts so it should be pretty easy for you to avoid.
Yeah..I also don’t find him funny, but I disagree on why he’s popular.
He played the algorithm and won. That’s it. He’s really good at the internet.
The issue was once he had to show he could do a special that wasn’t cut up into crowd work clips, he was exposed as kind of a hack.
This is a popular opinion no?
That’s a fact. Not an unpopular opinion.
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Agreed. Can’t stand him
Yeah, that’s probably an unpopular opinion. I’d say it’s flat out wrong but that is just my opinion.
I’m a straight dude and Matt Rife is popular cause he’s funny. I find him hilarious. He is wildly witty and good at what he does.
This isn’t unpopular.
This is a very popular opinion I think
This is Earth’s most popular opinion.
I don’t think he’s too funny but I can see why some people might. Comedy is probably one of the most subjective things out there so it’s hard to say any opinion about it is popular or unpopular.
He looks ai generated. Haven’t heard that name in forever
I think his crowdwork can be funny. Mostly when he says something and you watch it click in his own mind along with the audience and he cracks. I just enjoy that.
The good looking thing… I just don’t get it. Before he went all Kronk, he was cute. Pretty eyes and a nice smile. Now, he’s just sort of creepy looking. He looks like a Halloween decoration or handsome squidward. I just don’t get it.
But he does make me laugh. There are so many comedians that people genuinely find hilarious and I’m just baffled by. I’ve watched so many on Reddit where I don’t even crack a smile but the comments are raving about how it’s hilarious. The set up is boring, the punchline basic, and the entirety of the joke is basically “dumb thing said in comedy style is funny. LAUGH!”
My best friend and I were invited to a comedy show by two other friends. They spent weeks talking about how this person is the funniest comic working. I was truly excited because I trusted one of them on what was funny. I spent 2.5 hours without once cracking a smile. My best friend was the same. I realized there was a guy a few rows ahead who also didn’t laugh once. The three of us had one thing in common: we weren’t drinking. 90% of the audience was stumbling shitfaced from the venue. At that point, someone could say hello and everyone is laughing.
Found out, I knew a few other people that went. The ones who didn’t drink thought it was barely tolerable, the ones that did thought it was peak comedy.
Comedy is different for everyone. Just enjoy what you enjoy. But if you can’t ALSO enjoy it sober, there’s a good chance it isn’t funny.
Comedy is and will always be subjective. He does crowd work and to some people that can be hilarious others think it’s cheap comedy
I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion. I will say though and I am male, I saw him last year, or maybe even the year before now. Can’t remember. Anyway, after his netflix shows dropped, I didn’t laugh once, I thought they were terrible and I nearly canceled. I went anyway for something to do and ended up really enjoying it. I don’t think he likes it but his crowd work is his strong suit.
Saying he’s way too reliant on crowd work is debatable. I feel like that opinion likely developed from exposure on social media.
Many comedians don’t post their bits on social media because then there would be no point in going to watch them in person. Seeing crowd work online is meant to give you just enough to entice you to see them live in person.
I see OP had the YouTube algo randomly drop this guys only good bit “milf and cookies” in their feed years after it was relevant. I just want to know what prompted the algo to suddenly promote that video because I noticed a lot of people commented about it suddenly popping up earlier this year.
Eh he’s pretty funny. Might not be your kind of humor, but anyone that can get on stage and get some laughs has my respect.
This is…an extremely popular opinion
I thought everyone thought this lol
Also haven’t heard about that guy in a couple years
Matt rife had lightning in a bottle and couldn’t handle it. He was a mid performer that caught some viral heat. He had sold out concert venues and couldn’t maintain. Idk if it was drugs, alcohol or mental health but he cancelled hella shows last year last minute. And I mean last minute, I was bartending his show in Bloomington indiana and he cancelled it like 20 minutes after he was supposed to go on.
After that he cancelled his Chicago shows last minute. AFAIK a bunch of other venues just went ahead and cancelled for him.
Whether he is still popular is moot, he’s lost his chance to make it big once he started losing people money.
I agree with you! Went for his show and was far from impressed. Oh well…
I don’t find him good-looking whatsoever
Wrong. Like most comedians, they are funny but their stuff gets a little stale.
Yawn. This is already a popular opinion.
I have only seen a few tiktok clips of his work. I have found them all funny but I’m sure they are cherry picking the best clips to share so while my opinion of him is positive, is all based of TikTok clips
Extremely popular opinion
His crowd work is good. Quick responses. Other than that – meh
When he got big on Tik Tok, my wife showed me his crowd work and I thought it was pretty good. I’m a big standup fan, so we started watching his special. It was terrible. We stopped about 15 minutes in and never finished it.
Not unpopular.
Do you think this is an unpopular opinion or are you karma farming?
This is not an unpopular opinion.
I think he’s hilarious tbh. Weird how comedy and most things in life can be subjective huh?
He bought a jawline to make himself famous and isn’t remotely funny
I don’t think this is unpopular anymore. Even though I found him funny at times, he has completely fallen off in the last year. I haven’t seen him pop up any where besides this post in a minute.
This is a very popular opinion
I personally don’t like any comedian that is “known” for crowd work I think it’s just lazy.
Matt Rife’s audience is not women, and he’s ugly af since he botched his face with all that surgery.