401. Rife For Cancellation | Matt Rife

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down in-person with recently “canceled” comedian Matt Rife. They discuss the incident in question, his viral response, the prominence of crowd work in his act, his early career start at the age of 15, the innovative use of social media to build his name, and the real reason he remains unapologetic for having a sense of humor. Matthew Steven Rife was born in 1995 and is an American standup comedian and actor. He started early, entering a school talent show at the age of 14 after being encouraged by a friend. Finding this to be a success, he went professional the next year at age 15. Using TikTok, he managed to consistently go viral with his stand up and "red flag" crowd work. He then entered the arena full time, using social media to grow his name before producing three straight-to-YouTube comedy specials from 2021 to 2023. This year, he debuted his first Netflix special, "Natural Selection." - Links - For Matt Rife: On X https://x.com/mattrife?s=20 On Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mKA8JTOCeodl9bEK7w42Q On Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@matt_rife?lang=en Full Specials: “Only Fans” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzgFwZEAHZQ “Matthew Steven Rife” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwsR1iqsuE “Walking Red Flag” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HkmMXprPwI&t=768s Watch “Natural Selection” on Netflix now!

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0:00.0	The Hello everyone. I had the opportunity today to welcome and speak with one of the
0:21.3	world's most outstanding current comedians.
0:25.4	Young guy, 28 years old, Matt Reith,
0:27.8	who's exploded onto the comedy scene
0:30.0	in the last few years,
0:32.0	after having put his time in the trenches he's been working as a
0:36.7	comedian in small clubs and so forth he started when he was 15 so he put in his 10 years
0:41.6	before really becoming popular he's been in his 10 years before really becoming popular.
0:43.0	He's been the subject of a relatively dedicated council campaign in recent weeks and so we had a chance to discuss that,
0:51.0	to discuss his witty, fast, brave, discuss that
0:55.0	to discuss his witty, fast, brave, and appropriate response to that cancellation
0:58.0	to talk about that sort of thing in more detail
1:01.0	and also to detail out the structure of his new tour and his plans for the future and why he's
1:09.2	doing what he's doing and what the role of comedy is in the broader world.
1:13.0	So, welcome to the conversation.
1:15.0	All right, so I've been, I've been planning this opening, which I don't usually do,
1:20.0	because I like to do things spontaneously, but, but I have to get this one right okay so you got to help
1:26.3	me get this straight okay so now you're a comedian and you got canceled for a domestic assault joke and then in response to that instead of apologizing like a good boy you
1:37.3	put up a joke ad site about special needs helmets to protect the people who are offended by you and now
1:46.4	To get yourself out of trouble you're gonna come on my podcast I never said that's your plan I was hoping it would make things way worse I'm hoping we can drive sales to that very real website about the helmets.
1:56.2	Yes, anyways, congratulations on that. I thought the joke was funny, risky and funny. And I thought your response was dead on like one of the things I've noticed
2:07.1	is that people who are harassed by sensorial-minded nullwits, almost always backed down and apologize.
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