The worst thing you can do to a comedian is just not laugh. Cancelling them only gives notoriety, not laughing makes them forced to reconsider why the joke isn’t funny.
It's like when you befriend the new kid at school but they want to social climb. so once they get comfortable they dunk on you to get the cool kids to like them
The fact that he was trying to “appeal to a male base” and immediately goes to derogatory jokes about women shows that there’s an issue with “bro” culture. If that’s what you have to do to fit in with the boys, maybe you need to take a more critical look at what men find funny and why.
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@Zzz2x Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
I like how Noel Miller has a majority female audience and shows no insecurity about that whatsoever and in fact embraces it. His very recent stand up special was very much geared to his audience (especially with his abortion bit) and he showed how proud of and thankful to his female audience he is. Matt Rife could have really taken notes from that comedy special. It's called "Stop Crying" and y'all should watch it.
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
I think it's the punching down that breaks a joke. The punchline of the autism joke is the kid robbing a casino, which is funny & not punching down to the kid. The DV joke, the punchline is: hitting women is funny, which is punching down & objectively super old/worn out.
@TheBalroththe upper class to the lower, white people to POC, men to women, christians in the US to other religions. like any oppressive or majority group can punch down.
He didn’t want to pander to women so he pandered to men instead. Why can’t he just tell funny jokes and live off the success of his good looks like is that honestly so hard?
it was good when his crowd work revolved around the girl's ex always being a dumbfuck right? - that was sweet and especially SO HILARIOUS. you hit that reality wall pretty hard bossgirl.
As an autistic person that first bit Ethan showed was pretty funny. But honestly though I’ve heard funnier comedians tell more offensive jokes better. He doesn’t really offend me, the jokes in his Netflix special just aren’t that great IMO.
@@Greeezy not every autistic person is nonverbal but it doesn’t mean we’re any less autistic than those who are. When people say “autism is a spectrum” it’s less like a sliding scale from “a little autistic” to “very autistic” and more like a wheel of various human behaviors that neurodivergent people either do very well or don’t do very well compared to each other and even compared to neurotypicals. For example I’ve always struggled with reading, social interactions, and doing ordinary chores/menial tasks, but despite that I’ve been able to take care of myself basically since I was a child as I taught myself how to cook my own meals when I was about 9 or 10. And I can hyperfocus on something if it’s one of my special interests like music, movies/TV, fashion, history, and pop culture etc. TL;DR, autistic people aren’t a monolith and you can’t tell how autistic someone is based on your experiences with how autistic someone you’ve met previously is. As I always say, if you’ve met one autistic person then you’ve only met ONE autistic person.
same, obviously not an offensive joke but it wasn’t the best autism joke i’ve seen. the part after that with the lady who gave him a drawing was honestly just sad to watch though. not offensive but just made me feel bad for the lady because he was clearly making fun of the fact that she made him something instead of doing actual crowd work and making jokes out of that. i can just imagine making something for someone i look up to and them saying “this is going on the fridge!” i think a good example of actual good crowd work is jessica kirson, my god she is hilarious.
As a DV survivor, DV jokes can 100 percent be enjoyed. Best way to get over something is to laugh. His joke wasn't offensive to me. It was just poorly executed and seemed way off his usual style. Anything can be laughed at, it just needs to be, ya know, actually funny. It was just a sad bomb, but I don't want to pitchfork the dude. Would love to know his thought process behind it.
Statistically speaking when your audience is mostly women, a good handful of those have been victims of DV or assault. You're wanting to go to a comedy special and laugh, not be reminded of trauma from your past. If he were to joke about DV, pick on the people who think it's okay to hit a woman, not the woman getting hit.
If he cared he wouldn't have put that joke in his comedy special. They can go somewhere else and if Matt complains about lost revenue, there's your time to shine.
People keep misinterpreting the backlash he got as people being “too sensitive these days” but it’s not even that. His comedy special was lazy. The jokes were Facebook memes I saw 10 years ago, and 80% of them were just women-hating. Not funny, light-hearted jokes, he genuinely seemed triggered. It’s clear that Matt is insecure and resentful of his fan base because he shot to fame only after he became conventionally attractive, and not the 10+ years prior when he was trying to break onto the scene at this level.
It wasn’t just the initial joke, I watched the first 10-15 mins and it was pretty clear it was aimed at men. I can take a dark joke, but every joke was almost hateful towards women and none of his jokes were remotely funny and they were lazy. Even the laughs sounded like it was a laugh track.
@@JTBCPand 90% of his audience is pissed at him rn he even said that he’s trying to gear towards men not women. He wants his audience to be mostly men so he is making jokes for men, where women are the punchline because he doesn’t want to be known as the “comedian that’s only successful bc the majority of his fanbase (women) find him attractive”
I agree with Dan on being disinterested in most comedians these days. The whole schtick revolves around bitching about how they can't say anything as an excuse to not try and evolve their material. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how Joe Rogans maintains a successful (?) stand-up career. While he objectively has a knack for podcasting, the guy seems to think he can hold his own against his comedian buddies.
Sounds like you’re just watching the wrong ones then. Mark Normand, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Josh Johnson and Matteo Lane are a few great ones who don’t lean into that shtick.
They also act like it's brave to talk about "cancelable content." Meanwhile Fox News is obsessed with that stuff already. It isn't exactly ground breaking if it's the same topics that are being parroted by the most popular news channel.
I think part of it is a lot of men think he only blew up because he’s good looking and not because he’s funny, thus the large female fan base, and essentially he is trying to “prove” he is actually funny to men and show that he is not popular just because he is good looking. He’s touched on this in a few podcasts he’s been on, Rogan and Segura.
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@basicallyno1722 yep and all you soy boys can do is all point that out like I was pasting it hahahaah, it’s because you have no actual reply, it’s okay little buddy
Bill Burr does INSANELY offensive humor. CRAZY offensive. But it works for him, he has a very diverse fan base. Wanna know why? *Because he's funny.* Matt Rife is good at crowd work, but his written and planned stand-up is not. Maybe if he works on it some day he will be funny, but some people just... Don't have it. They're just good at improv. He should've just kept riding the "good looks" train that he lucked into, much like PLENTY of women do in Hollywood, as he kept improving his long-form stand-up routine. If you have a different opinion, great. I could not possibly care less, go on keep having it, I will neither change your mind nor lose sleep over it.
that’s thing it’s like…where’s the punch line? like we know where it is but where’s the one that’s actually funny. also it’s not like offensive humor was his thing before, so all the fans he accumulated are probably turned off to his comedy now.
I like his crowd work. I watched the special and didn’t find it funny, wasn’t offended by it just wasn’t relatable to me. I found his jokes were stupid and he came off as a douchebag.
@@chopperdean3968 Bro that black eye joke was so lame, not to mention we've all heard the original one. He aint funny, someone else was and he copied it lmao.
@@Redwin34 it’s crazy how everyone is pinpointing out 1 joke he said 1 joke and then they act like the special was ruined he still told it better than you could’ve anyways 😂
@@chopperdean3968@chopperdean3968 Nobody is saying they're a comedian. They're saying the joke is bad. Nobody is offended by the joke, because the joke is lame. People confuse telling a bad joke that gets no laughs with getting canceled. Believe me, I love a good woman beater joke, Bill Burr is the master at that. But if you're going to do it don't be such an f'ing hack about it.
Jokes about domestic violence can be funny-- if the butt of the joke is the abuser. If the joke is targeting the victim, only complete monsters and losers are laughing. It's actually very clear cut. Also, wrt to "trans jokes," it's not funny because in order to joke about something you need to understand at least one atom of the subject. Trans people make incredible trans jokes (I should know, I'm trans and I'm funny.)
Ethans final analysis is correct. He was literally JUST on tom seguras podcast before he did the special. He was complaining about all the sexual harrassment he was getting at shows and tom probably was like "i can teach you the dark arts if you want, lets get rid of em"
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
I don't think the type of joke was the whole problem. You can make a DV joke, but when your entire audience is women it better be the funniest DV joke of all time. You can get away with anything if it's funny enough. If it isn't then you deserve whatever backlash you get
@@pde8444 thats just not true. a joke can be a joke and offensive. they can literally be go hand in hand. if you dont find it funny thats fine. if ur offended thats fine too. be offended and just stop looking at matt rife. no one cares and no one is forcing you to look at him. just dont do this "its just offensive" because ur offended. that point is just bs. comics have been delivering offensive jokes longer than either of us have been born and should continue to do so cause its funny, which is the point.
@@pde8444 I’m autistic and can literally say that the autistic joke was offensive. Telling that woman “you’re verbal” I didn’t find it offensive because I can disconnect from a joke and irl serious issues. No one is the final boss of judging what is funny or not, what is appropriate or not in comedy. You don’t like it, cool, stop triggering yourself and remove yourself from his content lmao? 🥴 I believe the joke wasn’t all that funny, he could’ve improved on how he delivered the punchline, or even say “maybe she’d had 2 black eyes if she stayed in the back so she’s better to be here with us” It’s all subjective lmao. Chill.
@@gigiamour there’s a difference between them though. The autistic one wasn’t making fun of autism but the DV one was saying the woman deserved the black eye.
Not even a Matt Rife fan but it’s just naive to think that his career is over lol. He just started a completely sold out nationwide tour and is only going to get more and more successful.
Same, I didn’t find it funny since it’s not my flavor ironic boomer humor it was just a bad joke. I feel like something that is understated in this conversation is that I’ve heard clips of him on podcasts(I think it was actually Whitney Cummings lol) of the cat calling and sexual harassment he has experienced from his loving female fan base. Not trying to say one justifies the other, but the people that are mad about that joke, and the people that objectify(if they admit it or not) him have a high over lap. But he still shows up to perform for the people that appreciate him for his comedy more so than his ascetic. (Que: JP men are doing impossible things) So this “joke” feels like a response to that tbh. Dumb, stupid, and shocking.
Yep this... Never going to ruin his career. I don't think Ethan is getting that most people are sooo sick of cancel culture and worried about being offensive. He is no longer (maybe never was) on the right side of things.
his career isn’t over but he fumbled the bag, having a mostly women fanbase is going to give you the most money, that’s a marketing fact, nfl and taylor swift as an example. he’s going to be fine and gain a lot of red pill men as his audience, just not going to be as successful as he could’ve been
if controversial jokes that toe into domestic abuse are cancellable, then a huge amount of comedians should be out of work tomorrow. the argument is so weird because people say it's an old-hat/worn-out joke, but then also say that he should be cancelled for it because it's that much of a comedic aberration/rarity? it quite literally cannot be both.
I had the same thought. All the YT videos about his career ending or being over is just sensationalizing a bad joke. I’m sure he’s going to continue touring bc people paid for it & I don’t care for the guy either.
Hey man, Mickey Rourke was in a car accident that ruined him for alot of years till he aged. Its literally not his fault he needs to keep going back for work done. He was one of the gorgeous ones back in the 80s!
He started having surgery after boxing injuries damaged his face. He had a boxing career in the 90s after he was blacklisted in Hollywood because he was a complete nightmare to work with. I don’t remember a car accident, I’m sure it happened, but his downfall was being a complete dick to people.
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@twilit Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic 😊
dude just had a bomb, its borderline a rite of passage, comics will have his back, he career is just fine, people will bitch but then bounce back after they calm down, tale as old as time
Nothing is worst then people who do not understand the difference between shock humor and dark humor. Shock humor is unoriginal, low effort, and lame. Dark humor is used to take an offensive concept or idea and twist it into a unique humorous social commentary. It requires a lot of talent and thought to pull off. For example, shock humor is when a 12 year old kid says the N Word or some other racist thing on xbox live to get a quick reaction. Dark humor is when Dave Chappelle masterfully created a dark and humorous social commentary take on racism by creating the character Clayton Bigsby the blind black white supremacist. Which required a lot of offensive humor but also a lot of creativity and originality. Another example of expertly delivered dark comedy is Andrew Schulz bit about blackface in the military. Its an offensive topic but the way he delivers it in an original format while mixing in self deprecation makes it humorous.
Do you know who is really good at stand-up comedy? Vir Das, Karunesh Talwar Zakir Khan, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Kanan Gill, Kenny Sebastian, Sumukhi Suresh, Akash Gupta, Abhishek Upamanu and Azeem Banatwala. All Indian comics that are ten times more creative with their comedy, with Netflix and prime specials that deserve a watch from all comedy lovers. Their work is awesome and is so far removed from the tired alpha bro comedy that I'm tired of seeing constantly from American comics. I highly recommend their specials, especially Vir Das as a starter point, but, if you are down to discover something new, these comics are all brilliant.
he probably resented his whole fanbase, like bieber. sometimes guys make fun of other guys who are "successful" (for want of a much better term) with women. A female fanbase is considered uncool and uncritical. He was probably always a misogynist.
As someone who has a son who had to wear special needs head wear due to his uncontrollable seizures. I hope Matt rife never has to actually visit a site like this. He should quickly humble himself.
If you really think about it though, for EVERY joke ever told there’s someone who’s tragically living exactly that scenario. If we cancel him for this one joke, we would have to cancel all stand-up comedians. Every single one!
No he won’t, he’s funny AF. If you don’t like his comedy, don’t watch it. Stavros and Tim Dillon make worse jokes than Matt Rife but I don’t see you people carrying pitchforks for their cancellation. Humble yourself, baby girl, or you’ll be miserable your whole life.
@@lenakorz1992oh my God be quiet, There is something very wrong with people who have to find issue with everything. Of course there's someone in that situation that doesn't take away from the joke it's self. Either laugh or keep it moving
@@Daniel-hf5nq nah he's reaching out to a broader audience now. He was only getting the 20 year fans because of tiktok, he's more well known now. He'll get away with it because I see a lot of people praising his stand up too, which I agree with.
Ethan and Hila are really good friends with Tom Segura and Christina P and both of their specialties is this really bombastic off the wall "let me say the most offensive disturbing thing possible" on stage and walk it back. So when they criticize stuff like that with Rife, especially since it's so minor compared to the stuff Tom and Christina say, it makes me feel like Ethan and Hila probably aren't as woke and as left as they present and that its probably just a big facade for their very woke liberal audience. Which is fine if they aren't, I'm not super woke myself but it's like they'd probably attractive an older audience that could handle being a little less woke if they were more upfront about it. I especially remember awhile back them having Tim Dillon call into the show and it was super awkward bc both Ethan and Hila were super into it and hyping him the fuck up and the crew was clearly not into it at all lol. I mean hell Ethans also good friends with Bobby Lee and Bad Friends is one of my favorite pods but they sure say at least one thing "cancelable" each week.
Lmao I rly don’t think it has anything to do with “wokeness”, it’s just hypocrisy plain and simple. They are their friends so they’re more likely to brush off the things they’ve said
I use to be a relatively big fan of their content and so on but I think you pretty much summed it up for me that their takes just aren't as genuine as they'd like us to believe. But what can ya do 😅🤷🏽♂️
I agree anything can be joked about but Olivia is right, the punchline of that joke is that a woman deserved to be hit for her cooking ability? It's just not good or funny. If a DV survivor wants to make DV jokes about what happened to them I'm all for it.
"you'd be all for it", except 95% of the people who complained about this one would still cancel a comedian DV survivor for any DV joke that isn't a PSA or a teaching lesson regardless of context. sometimes you gotta look at the anger mob, the controlling mafia clan, and think how coherent and consistent you are vs how much you'd like to believe you're making the world better.
The autism jokes were funny and he was doing good crowd work. Domestic violence with a majority female fan base? Yeesh. Domestic violence jokes are kinda played out and we see so much of that type of humor over saturated in the “manosphere.” It’s actually exhausting.
I think comedians like Jessica Kirson and Matteo Lane hit Ethan’s “counter-Roganite” type of stand up that we really need more of for stand up to live on
Stand up will live on and Matts career will only grow for one simple reason. Because he did not apologise. Fortunately there are people who still remember that humour is subjective and if the joke hurt someones feelings they are free to not watch Matt or any other comedian, but other people found it funny and all we care about in comedy is having a laugh. Bill Burr is still hilarious and he was cancelled more times than anyone.
Like at the end of the day cancel culture is bullshit, and he'll be fine. He'll still make money, he'll still draw a crowd. He's probably limited his ultimate highest level of success at the very high end, but let's be real he was never gonna be a legendary act, and doing what he's doing is just an acknowledgement of that. He's angling to find a niche crowd and move forward collecting a check from them reliably for a few more decades.
People are offended about his “misogyny” while at the same time, dissing the women fans who like him, as if their likes are less important and a fluke to why he is popular.
I think Ethan’s right “theoretically you can make a joke about any situation in a way that’s tasteful and classy” “old-timey” is another way of saying this joke is easy and uncreative. he wants to change his audiences to straight white men go for it bro, looks like you’re doing it.
i feel like this isnt the first time matt rife has made jokes like this, either. I swear I've seen clips of him saying similar things in sets so this doesnt surprise me at all
In recent months, he has repeatedly spoken out about how hard it is to be physically attractive as a comedian. In an interview with Men’s Health back in August, he said: “I’ve been doing stand-up for a little over 12 years now. I will say, I don't think it helps you by any means - people don’t want to laugh at physically attractive people, you don’t want to walk on stage and have people looking at your arms rather than listening to your jokes.” Somebody, help this poor opressed handsome white male successful comedian. Jesus christ, world's smallest violin ensues
Of course not. Leftists who get offended by everything think they are the majority when they are actually a very small minority that just happen to be loud.
Olivia totally hates Ethan, i always see like she feels Ethan does have some misogyny in him, cuz she stays silent for most of the time,but when she does get the guts to finally speak on something, ethan always cuts her off or brushes over what she said, and you can clearly see another example of that around 13:20
He's the same dude who touched Zandaya's face unprompted on some tv live show which caused people to dislike him, he then fixed his teeth and suddenly women started following him. Guess that's pretty privilege
He was also on Dropouts podcast, and Zac is one of the most edgy out of pocket comedians and Matt even stunned him for a second. Like he recovered, but paused for a moment when Matt told him to use the N word after he said he had a black adopted sibling I've only ever seen Zac stunned that one time
god ive been saying it up and down with these comedians. Every comedy special I've watched recently is either about cancel culture and the trans community. Every comedian makes jokes about the same things now. It just comes off as lazy and out-of-touch to me.
Exactly. Comedy can be very healing. Comedians throughout history have known how to joke about any topic without punching down, but lately people think saying 'it was just a joke' after something offensive is peak comedy. It's so weird!
Special needs helmets are usually for people at high risk for having seizures or falls. My aunt wore one because she had seizures without warning and it helped protect her head when she fell.
A mean spirited 13 year old can and has thought of these exact same bits. Theres nothing clever. You can make jokes that are shocking or offensive, but these have no wit or soul, and thats the problem
I was about to say it’s always a crapshoot with the comments here, they’re either genuine fans who love and support the podcast or Rogan/Peterson/Crowder/Tate fans coming to collectively shit on someone they disagree with.
@@KealohaHarrisonor try to pretend to care about anyone that isn't a WASP f+scist male, while they themselves defend anyone who is 'cancelled' without actually looking at the reason why they're "canceled". Plus ironically, they say Ethan is weak or something, when all they do is stalk the h3 can base their entire personality around hating anything "woke or progressive". Because, none of these haters have grown as people since 2014.
Ethan was kind of screwed by circumstance. He used to collaborate with iDubbz and Filthy Frank when those were the edgiest channels and he was edgy himself. Now that edgy content can't be monitised, all three of those guys have tried to pretend that they aren't edgelords to their bones. The edgelord audience from back in those days is pissed off at Ethan because he does wokescolding on his podcast now and doesn't cater to that audience anymore. I for one think that it is a travesty that TH-cam content can be demonitised for being too edgy. There was a crazy racism problem on TH-cam up until probably the end of the Obama years. I remember there was this one video called 'No Apologies' which was just saying how white people shouldn't apologise for slavery and colonialism because these things brought enlightenment to the more savage races. It had hundreds of thousands or million of views. It was gross and crazy. Ideally, TH-cam could design a system that polices hate content like that but allows for edgy, uncensored jokes or violence or uncensored news coverage. People saying 'unaliving' and 'essay' instead of suicide and rape is genuinely cartoonish, dystopian and completely pointless. I'd rather keep both the hate content and the uncensored good content than live in the censorship hell that TH-cam has become.
I've noticed most comment sections of most channels are full of people being like "wah wah wah you've changed" and I honestly dont get it. It's a v boomer move to be like "I'm not shopping here anymore. You've lost my business!" And we know how lame and useless it is. But the young people do it online. If you dont like someone or something, simply remove yourself and move on with your life. But it feels like most people are just living in hate. Whatever they hate they focus on. Esp politically. But then it.bleeds into everything and you eventually become what you hate. That's my opinion anyways.
@@williamhornabrook8081i agree and i feel like calling it essay or SA completely downplays the seriousness of what is being discussed, like it’s a horrible thing that happens and it should be spoken about properly, not shortened into something that can avoid the TH-cam censorship.
Omg this is so frustrating because it’s a joke. It’s not like he’s attacking his audience by being serious. A comedian MAKES JOKES. If you can’t take a joke then don’t support a comedian???????
his response was just terrible. its one thing to double down on your shitty, tired, and overused joke but to do so with an equally as shitty, tired, and overused joke? wooow, special place in hell for that behavior ngl.
Eh, I feel like people are being a little to sensitive about this. I heard the joke, i'm a DV survivor, I didn't get offended I just put my head down and chuckled because I personally like dark humor. That's what it is dark humor. I've heard comedians say "this isnt who i am, these are jokes" that can't be more true and there are levels. Whoever got offended at this needs to watch George Carlin if you actually want to be offended lol
what blows my mind is he literally had everything like he was popular and good looking. the absolute LEAST he could do was just be a good guy. he did not have to go the edgy route, he had to have been bored or something. ew.
How do you know he’s not a good guy? He just told an edgy joke, Jesus Christ. If you don’t find it funny that’s fine, but plenty of people did. That doesn’t mean he should be cancelled or vindicated because he told an offensive joke, grow up
I really like Jimmy Carr as a comedian. he does very dark jokes about sensitive topics, but he still never „punches down“ also: shayne smith and matteo lane are pretty funny
The black eye joke probably could’ve been pulled off if the setup and delivery weren’t so weak. General Sam had a good one recently actually, in a video about microwaving thanksgiving dinner. He said “they made whole fuckin cook books for making entire meals with just a microwave, no wonder mfs used to beat the shit out of their wives. This is vile.” that one got me with a good chuckle
ive never watched matt rife but so many friends of mine love him so I watched his special and was so confused bc it wasnt anything like he was described to me as. I had to google to make sure there werent two matt rifes in comedy lmfao
I have the same opinion as Ethan, I mean really you could make a joke out of anything, I tend to cross the line at a few things just because there’s no way to make a joke that would ever be funny, but technically you could make the joke. I think that’s what people are forgetting when they do these stand up routines, just because you made the joke doesn’t mean it’s funny. Not everything out of your mouth is going to be a hit. I’m surprised with someone that basis his stand up off improv that he couldn’t read his audience enough to know that wasn’t the right move.
rationalizing how to properly act when you got audience captured in the cases where the audience belongs to an universally good category according to twitter. Matt Rife is the single most audience captured comedian of the the current times, and you people talk about this shit on a daily basis with alt right, joe rogan and that type of camp. here however you're coaching how he should have done PR to maintain the female toxicity vibe as a product. despite a fuckton of women at his shows harassing him, which is actually what made the dude despite women audience in comedy and 99% why he went so hard on that. which when you make example comparisons is the exact same thing as the bill burr philly incident or him shitting on his low IQ beer belly audience. I guess insulting someone's IQ and inability to be successful at life is a kinder joke than DV. those men could have changed it and just chose to become lawyers. you're so apolitical and empathetic. the difference, is biblical levels of hypocrisy on your part. your belief that women can't be stereotyped but guys can (and should, as this very podcast showcases copious amounts of). that's literally it. that's why Matt Rife changed his tone, incidentally. because he got enough of your constant fake shit. he said this multiple times in previous podcasts, he absolutely hates moral high ground women on the internet acting like moral authorities and vitcims and then treating him like a sex object including physical sexual harassment. oh what's what? "you didn't touch him yourself?" sucks innit, still your fault, dedicate time to route out toxicity within your category because without the effort of women we will never get rid of this culture of toxic women - you made up those rules and you follow creators literally adopting this rulebook for their content creation. now it's all you. Do better.
I’m gonna be honest, starting the special w/ a domestic violence joke seemed like a calculated pr risk that he took. The controversy gave more exposure to him and his special and chances are he’ll just have to apologize or people will forget about it.
matt rife is someone who got told he should do stand up because hes hot and slightly charming in one on one interactions. he forgot about the joke writing aspect of it though. stop telling ur friends they should become comedians because they are charming it doesnt translate that easy!!! edit: only bring up the hot stuff cause hot people could sneeze and mfs would laugh
This is just blatantly untrue, he’s been doing comedy for over 10 years and he looked like an absolute geek for the vast majority of that time. He only got super jacked within the last few years.
@@bentley230 yes but he only got viral after he got his 6 veneers, a hot bod and fillers in his face. the funniest thing about matt is that he think his comedic talent is what make him popular
I wish he would’ve told that joke to the hostess. Matt would’ve got his ass handed to him; he could’ve done his stand up with two black eyes. It’s wild he assumed a woman in Baltimore had a black eye from domestic violence and not from a regular fight. He’s out of touch on so many levels.
I cant wait for people to realise that the sharp cheekbones and jawline look isnt flattering for everyone. I actually think he looks weird and even creepy when he smiles now
The DV joke was a joke in bad taste, but, in general, Matt Rife seems like a good guy, and his jokes are pretty hilarious. My favorite bit of his was the joke about the ouija board girl. He was trying to be edgy.
He used to be on Nick Cannon’s Wild n Out show it’s not that surprising maybe for his newer fans but I don’t think this is the end of his career he’s just lost his initial audience
isn’t it funny how his written jokes are the ones that suck but off the cuff is what built his career. like i know you have to write jokes to have a set and make sure you fill the time slot but…these jokes aren’t it man 💀
The alternate comedian is diversity shows. I saw a local all gay comedy show it was hosted by a lesbian and all the comedians were amazing. I have also seen black comedians and other comedians who were amazing. I think most of the comedians who say "you can't tell jokes anymore" are cishet white men.
I dont know about that. I do think he hasn't dissuaded enough people from coming out to see him to see a significant financial impact tho. Its not a big deal, it was just stupid to try to pander to men.
I love how everyone in this comment section is trying to dissect his jokes and screen them for "appropriateness." Comedy is and will always be subjective, you idiots. Comedy is the last beacon of free speech we have at this point and it's continuously being attacked for "bad jokes" that go viral whether it's Rife or Tony Hinchcliffe. Cancel culture is destructive and is nothing more than a pity party for overly offended people who have nothing else of meaning going on in their lives.
Not exactly his fan but was recommended his videos in YT and he had some pretty good jokes in there…a bit flirty for my taste but he does…the autistic joke could go sideways but he saved it with the heist joke which honestly was really creative…i haven’t watched the Netflix special but I was hearing he went downhill after that…
just because you didnt like the joke doesnt mean someone should get canceled for it. its not a new line of jokes. tons of people do these all the time but because hes popular rn its a problem >_>
His views are through the fckin roof. He is not hurt at all. Those they love him are making him rich. Those that hate him are making him even richer. Especially in social media there is no such thing as bad p r
when i first saw a clip of matt the very first time he walked up on stage n kinda stood there and said...i knoooo i know i look good... .. i heard nothing else after that NOT 1 PERSON Clapped or laughed lol 😅
Comedians are like your kids. You act like you own them and they will disappoint you. They wont fit in the box you have for them even though its a nice music box with an antique 🔑 that performs a melody when turned.
a comedian usually gets more popular and famous by cancelling them. Ppl now want to see more of their material, I think this is an extremely calculated and smart move by Matt Rife, it's really hard to cancel a comedian when they are selling out shows and already have a large following.
I agree. I bet a lot of the people who like him now are just supporting him simply because other people are upset . It's probably not even the type of support a comedian gets simply for being funny. It's pretty cringe.
It’s all about insight and experience when it comes to jokes. A survivor of dv can make a dv joke and the fact that they have an experience and can relay it a certain way is what makes it funny. You know?
a joke about domestic violence is not betraying a whole gender. im not a fan of rife, but people are losing touch of the reality of humor. Nothings off limits like that
Matt has a following that's massive compared to this channel, and it feels like a bit of fomo.. jealousy.... And then to name off some of the most offensive comics ever, W. prior, Murphy and compare them to Rife . Wow. ... Pick a lane. Then you call him a Roganite even though his career was WELL AND I MEAN WELLLLL before Rogan .. do your homework. This is a shock piece for views. Rife has and does have hundreds of millions of views & followers well before Rogan, F.YI. And for anyone who wants to hate comment this, be my guest. I am not saying Rife is perfection but at least he's honest and doesn't just do bullshit videos for views. His shit got views bc he did the work. He's been honest about his work and fore warned people what his comedic tone would be. This video is amerutr. Next time, don't contradict your selves. Last Reminder Rifes videos have hundreds of millions. And....Y'all with 160k 😂😂 😂
The worst thing you can do to a comedian is have Ethan read their joke with his monotone voice.
Amen to that.
The worst thing you can do to a comedian is just not laugh.
Cancelling them only gives notoriety, not laughing makes them forced to reconsider why the joke isn’t funny.
The Issac Butterfield effect has been riding the wave of being cancelled for 4 years
To bad they all laughed though right
Love how lefties are mad at this guy hahahahaha, we are only going to support him more and y’all will stay mad hahahah
He’s funny though
They laughed because it was funny. Don't be a snowflake
It's like when you befriend the new kid at school but they want to social climb. so once they get comfortable they dunk on you to get the cool kids to like them
This is actually a really good analogy
The fact that he was trying to “appeal to a male base” and immediately goes to derogatory jokes about women shows that there’s an issue with “bro” culture. If that’s what you have to do to fit in with the boys, maybe you need to take a more critical look at what men find funny and why.
10000%
And if this is how your friends are, definitely re-evaluate your friendships with them, and your own perspectives
Love how lefties are mad at this guy hahahahaha, we are only going to support him more and y’all will stay mad hahahah
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@Zzz2x Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
I like how Noel Miller has a majority female audience and shows no insecurity about that whatsoever and in fact embraces it. His very recent stand up special was very much geared to his audience (especially with his abortion bit) and he showed how proud of and thankful to his female audience he is. Matt Rife could have really taken notes from that comedy special. It's called "Stop Crying" and y'all should watch it.
For real, and Noel isn't known for being PC either so like
I actually saw him live earlier this year and he was amazing. Very skilled at pulling off dark humor.
Love how lefties are mad at this guy hahahahaha, we are only going to support him more and y’all will stay mad hahahah
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@Starburst514those sun glasses make Olivia look SOOO much better
Matt Rife looks like Handsome Squidward.
I can’t unsee it now 😂 it’s all in the jaw
And Dean from Supernatural
I saw one meme comparing him to the bad guy from The Mask lmfao
When I look at him it gives me butch lesbian vibes sorta like ellen.
I’ve always said that 😂😂😂😂
I think it's the punching down that breaks a joke. The punchline of the autism joke is the kid robbing a casino, which is funny & not punching down to the kid. The DV joke, the punchline is: hitting women is funny, which is punching down & objectively super old/worn out.
drink everytime he says punch
@@fifi_______ 🍻 cheers!!
@TheBalroth ummm. What?
@TheBalroththe upper class to the lower, white people to POC, men to women, christians in the US to other religions. like any oppressive or majority group can punch down.
@@randimurphy4124what about POC punching down to white people? Im seeing that more and more these days
He didn’t want to pander to women so he pandered to men instead. Why can’t he just tell funny jokes and live off the success of his good looks like is that honestly so hard?
Because he wants to get away with those jokes but he’s too handsome for anyone to let him get away with it.
pick me! choose me! love me!
And all his comments are filled with gross men saying “now I’m a Matt Rife fan”
Cry about it
@@Fred131_ 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Anyone who becomes a fan from an abuse joke should be looked at carefully cuz that a little concerning. Not just ones by Matt Rife but ANY comedian
@@MikeyTheCartoonnope. Cos….It is a J9KE! 😅😊
it was good when his crowd work revolved around the girl's ex always being a dumbfuck right? - that was sweet and especially SO HILARIOUS.
you hit that reality wall pretty hard bossgirl.
As an autistic person that first bit Ethan showed was pretty funny. But honestly though I’ve heard funnier comedians tell more offensive jokes better. He doesn’t really offend me, the jokes in his Netflix special just aren’t that great IMO.
You seem pretty verbal. Guessing you just got a touch of the tism?
same i mean i didn’t find it funny but not because i was offended, it was just kind of boring to me but it wasn’t really bad
@@Greeezy not every autistic person is nonverbal but it doesn’t mean we’re any less autistic than those who are. When people say “autism is a spectrum” it’s less like a sliding scale from “a little autistic” to “very autistic” and more like a wheel of various human behaviors that neurodivergent people either do very well or don’t do very well compared to each other and even compared to neurotypicals. For example I’ve always struggled with reading, social interactions, and doing ordinary chores/menial tasks, but despite that I’ve been able to take care of myself basically since I was a child as I taught myself how to cook my own meals when I was about 9 or 10. And I can hyperfocus on something if it’s one of my special interests like music, movies/TV, fashion, history, and pop culture etc.
TL;DR, autistic people aren’t a monolith and you can’t tell how autistic someone is based on your experiences with how autistic someone you’ve met previously is. As I always say, if you’ve met one autistic person then you’ve only met ONE autistic person.
same, obviously not an offensive joke but it wasn’t the best autism joke i’ve seen. the part after that with the lady who gave him a drawing was honestly just sad to watch though. not offensive but just made me feel bad for the lady because he was clearly making fun of the fact that she made him something instead of doing actual crowd work and making jokes out of that. i can just imagine making something for someone i look up to and them saying “this is going on the fridge!” i think a good example of actual good crowd work is jessica kirson, my god she is hilarious.
As a DV survivor, DV jokes can 100 percent be enjoyed. Best way to get over something is to laugh.
His joke wasn't offensive to me. It was just poorly executed and seemed way off his usual style. Anything can be laughed at, it just needs to be, ya know, actually funny. It was just a sad bomb, but I don't want to pitchfork the dude. Would love to know his thought process behind it.
Statistically speaking when your audience is mostly women, a good handful of those have been victims of DV or assault. You're wanting to go to a comedy special and laugh, not be reminded of trauma from your past. If he were to joke about DV, pick on the people who think it's okay to hit a woman, not the woman getting hit.
Shut up good lord
Because a man would never understand what a woman goes through. He's just dumb enough to open his mouth about it
You clearly didn't understand the joke.
If he cared he wouldn't have put that joke in his comedy special. They can go somewhere else and if Matt complains about lost revenue, there's your time to shine.
@@benjaminjameskreger get a job instead of camping in Ethan's clip comments omg
People keep misinterpreting the backlash he got as people being “too sensitive these days” but it’s not even that. His comedy special was lazy. The jokes were Facebook memes I saw 10 years ago, and 80% of them were just women-hating. Not funny, light-hearted jokes, he genuinely seemed triggered. It’s clear that Matt is insecure and resentful of his fan base because he shot to fame only after he became conventionally attractive, and not the 10+ years prior when he was trying to break onto the scene at this level.
@@shinjiikari4285 im not following your point?
It wasn’t just the initial joke, I watched the first 10-15 mins and it was pretty clear it was aimed at men. I can take a dark joke, but every joke was almost hateful towards women and none of his jokes were remotely funny and they were lazy. Even the laughs sounded like it was a laugh track.
Not true. Like 90% of his audience is women.
@@JTBCPand 90% of his audience is pissed at him rn he even said that he’s trying to gear towards men not women. He wants his audience to be mostly men so he is making jokes for men, where women are the punchline because he doesn’t want to be known as the “comedian that’s only successful bc the majority of his fanbase (women) find him attractive”
Then go somewhere else and let those who do like his jokes enjoy them.
Lol then don’t watch it. I and a whole room of people thought it was hilarious.
I agree with Dan on being disinterested in most comedians these days. The whole schtick revolves around bitching about how they can't say anything as an excuse to not try and evolve their material. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how Joe Rogans maintains a successful (?) stand-up career. While he objectively has a knack for podcasting, the guy seems to think he can hold his own against his comedian buddies.
Sounds like you’re just watching the wrong ones then. Mark Normand, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Josh Johnson and Matteo Lane are a few great ones who don’t lean into that shtick.
I had no idea Joe Rogan even did stand up. (I don't watch TV)
@@lisakarson3279he doesn’t do it well that’s why you didn’t know
@MikeKennedyNFL love josh johnson! So glad u mentioned him
They also act like it's brave to talk about "cancelable content." Meanwhile Fox News is obsessed with that stuff already. It isn't exactly ground breaking if it's the same topics that are being parroted by the most popular news channel.
I love how Ethan says "it's 2 minutes long I'm not gonna show the whole thing" as if he showed more than 2 seconds at all
He can never play more than few seconds but he talks for so long lol
Like wtf
If he did 2 mins, this clip would've been the whole damn podcast. He can't not stop every .000001 sec to talk for 30 min
@@ihatefrankiero its his podcast
Drew is annoying asf I’m glad he didn’t play the video
@@Harveygarza08that clip is more interesting than this entire podcast lol
James Acaster is THE comedian of our time. He has a perfect balance of absurdity and interesting and funny and just fucking clever.
James is Acaster is brilliant.
YESSS
i love james.
His whole shtick is just screaming. Totally insipid.
Love him. He’s chaotic good energy and is just genuinely funny
I think part of it is a lot of men think he only blew up because he’s good looking and not because he’s funny, thus the large female fan base, and essentially he is trying to “prove” he is actually funny to men and show that he is not popular just because he is good looking. He’s touched on this in a few podcasts he’s been on, Rogan and Segura.
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
Dano….you’re just reposting your exact same comment everywhere
@@basicallyno1722 yep and all you soy boys can do is all point that out like I was pasting it hahahaah, it’s because you have no actual reply, it’s okay little buddy
100% he is famous for being attractive
Bill Burr does INSANELY offensive humor. CRAZY offensive.
But it works for him, he has a very diverse fan base. Wanna know why?
*Because he's funny.*
Matt Rife is good at crowd work, but his written and planned stand-up is not. Maybe if he works on it some day he will be funny, but some people just... Don't have it. They're just good at improv. He should've just kept riding the "good looks" train that he lucked into, much like PLENTY of women do in Hollywood, as he kept improving his long-form stand-up routine.
If you have a different opinion, great. I could not possibly care less, go on keep having it, I will neither change your mind nor lose sleep over it.
Well said!
Who SAed you as a kid?
@@b14ker14Something is wrong with you to leave this comment
This comment doesn't go as hard as you thought it would
that’s thing it’s like…where’s the punch line? like we know where it is but where’s the one that’s actually funny. also it’s not like offensive humor was his thing before, so all the fans he accumulated are probably turned off to his comedy now.
I like his crowd work. I watched the special and didn’t find it funny, wasn’t offended by it just wasn’t relatable to me. I found his jokes were stupid and he came off as a douchebag.
Only came here to say don't sleep on Bo Burnham - His stand up is truly one of a kind. Really, just a one man show.
He needs to be more clever and original if he is trying to be offensive. It reeks of insecurity to start a set with that.
I don’t think Matt Rife is the one with the insecurity here.
It’s funny you say that because now days you can breath wrong and someone is gonna get offended and flip shit and u can’t tell me I am wrong 😂
@@chopperdean3968 Bro that black eye joke was so lame, not to mention we've all heard the original one. He aint funny, someone else was and he copied it lmao.
@@Redwin34 it’s crazy how everyone is pinpointing out 1 joke he said 1 joke and then they act like the special was ruined he still told it better than you could’ve anyways 😂
@@chopperdean3968@chopperdean3968 Nobody is saying they're a comedian. They're saying the joke is bad. Nobody is offended by the joke, because the joke is lame. People confuse telling a bad joke that gets no laughs with getting canceled. Believe me, I love a good woman beater joke, Bill Burr is the master at that. But if you're going to do it don't be such an f'ing hack about it.
Jokes about domestic violence can be funny-- if the butt of the joke is the abuser. If the joke is targeting the victim, only complete monsters and losers are laughing. It's actually very clear cut.
Also, wrt to "trans jokes," it's not funny because in order to joke about something you need to understand at least one atom of the subject. Trans people make incredible trans jokes (I should know, I'm trans and I'm funny.)
Yeah I bet you’re hilarious (YWNBEARW)
Life’s tough get a helmet 😂🫢
@@MusicLife-pb2es I just saw you telling someone else to get a helmet. You got any other material?
@@karleyj9706 i think you need one tooo 🫢
@@karleyj9706 doesn’t change the fact that the original commenter will never be a woman
Ethans final analysis is correct. He was literally JUST on tom seguras podcast before he did the special. He was complaining about all the sexual harrassment he was getting at shows and tom probably was like "i can teach you the dark arts if you want, lets get rid of em"
I honestly think that was it.
😂
Good
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@danoco6385 facts Ethan has literally said so much horrible shit before Lmaoo but I guess when he says it it’s okay
I don't think the type of joke was the whole problem. You can make a DV joke, but when your entire audience is women it better be the funniest DV joke of all time. You can get away with anything if it's funny enough. If it isn't then you deserve whatever backlash you get
There’s a difference between a joke and being offensive. The autism one was funny and not offensive. The DV one was just offensive.
@@pde8444 thats just not true. a joke can be a joke and offensive. they can literally be go hand in hand. if you dont find it funny thats fine. if ur offended thats fine too. be offended and just stop looking at matt rife. no one cares and no one is forcing you to look at him. just dont do this "its just offensive" because ur offended. that point is just bs. comics have been delivering offensive jokes longer than either of us have been born and should continue to do so cause its funny, which is the point.
@@pde8444 I’m autistic and can literally say that the autistic joke was offensive. Telling that woman “you’re verbal” I didn’t find it offensive because I can disconnect from a joke and irl serious issues.
No one is the final boss of judging what is funny or not, what is appropriate or not in comedy. You don’t like it, cool, stop triggering yourself and remove yourself from his content lmao? 🥴
I believe the joke wasn’t all that funny, he could’ve improved on how he delivered the punchline, or even say “maybe she’d had 2 black eyes if she stayed in the back so she’s better to be here with us”
It’s all subjective lmao. Chill.
@@jasonnash4452 if you find jokes about DV and being sexist funny you have a low sense of humor and prolly iq
@@gigiamour there’s a difference between them though. The autistic one wasn’t making fun of autism but the DV one was saying the woman deserved the black eye.
Not even a Matt Rife fan but it’s just naive to think that his career is over lol. He just started a completely sold out nationwide tour and is only going to get more and more successful.
Same, I didn’t find it funny since it’s not my flavor ironic boomer humor it was just a bad joke. I feel like something that is understated in this conversation is that I’ve heard clips of him on podcasts(I think it was actually Whitney Cummings lol) of the cat calling and sexual harassment he has experienced from his loving female fan base. Not trying to say one justifies the other, but the people that are mad about that joke, and the people that objectify(if they admit it or not) him have a high over lap. But he still shows up to perform for the people that appreciate him for his comedy more so than his ascetic. (Que: JP men are doing impossible things) So this “joke” feels like a response to that tbh. Dumb, stupid, and shocking.
Yep this... Never going to ruin his career. I don't think Ethan is getting that most people are sooo sick of cancel culture and worried about being offensive. He is no longer (maybe never was) on the right side of things.
his career isn’t over but he fumbled the bag, having a mostly women fanbase is going to give you the most money, that’s a marketing fact, nfl and taylor swift as an example. he’s going to be fine and gain a lot of red pill men as his audience, just not going to be as successful as he could’ve been
if controversial jokes that toe into domestic abuse are cancellable, then a huge amount of comedians should be out of work tomorrow. the argument is so weird because people say it's an old-hat/worn-out joke, but then also say that he should be cancelled for it because it's that much of a comedic aberration/rarity? it quite literally cannot be both.
I had the same thought. All the YT videos about his career ending or being over is just sensationalizing a bad joke. I’m sure he’s going to continue touring bc people paid for it & I don’t care for the guy either.
Hey man, Mickey Rourke was in a car accident that ruined him for alot of years till he aged. Its literally not his fault he needs to keep going back for work done. He was one of the gorgeous ones back in the 80s!
He started having surgery after boxing injuries damaged his face. He had a boxing career in the 90s after he was blacklisted in Hollywood because he was a complete nightmare to work with. I don’t remember a car accident, I’m sure it happened, but his downfall was being a complete dick to people.
he also took steroids and became massive
Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic
@@twilit Nice so this show is just complaining and then if they are good looking Ethan makes fun of their looks to make himself feel better, y’all act like the same people you wanna cancel hahahahahahahaha this pod is pathetic 😊
@@danoco6385you keep commenting the same thing under every comment 😂
dude just had a bomb, its borderline a rite of passage, comics will have his back, he career is just fine, people will bitch but then bounce back after they calm down, tale as old as time
100%, not surprising from h3 fans
Nothing is worst then people who do not understand the difference between shock humor and dark humor. Shock humor is unoriginal, low effort, and lame. Dark humor is used to take an offensive concept or idea and twist it into a unique humorous social commentary. It requires a lot of talent and thought to pull off. For example, shock humor is when a 12 year old kid says the N Word or some other racist thing on xbox live to get a quick reaction. Dark humor is when Dave Chappelle masterfully created a dark and humorous social commentary take on racism by creating the character Clayton Bigsby the blind black white supremacist. Which required a lot of offensive humor but also a lot of creativity and originality. Another example of expertly delivered dark comedy is Andrew Schulz bit about blackface in the military. Its an offensive topic but the way he delivers it in an original format while mixing in self deprecation makes it humorous.
Personal preference, but his humour in the Netflix special isn't funny at all to me
I agree
I saw his netflix special pop up on my page and was like "this guy looks like a total douchebag" can't believe how right i was
@@dorlis1 lmaoooo what the fuck kind of comparison is that?
@@dorlis1lmao racial stereotypes and basing someone based off their facial detail/style aren't the same, thanks for playing though
So true though, I did the same 😂
He looks like a big mouth character😂
@@dorlis1umm skin color ain’t the same as facial expression, clothes, presentation. You are just racist
Do you know who is really good at stand-up comedy? Vir Das, Karunesh Talwar Zakir Khan, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Kanan Gill, Kenny Sebastian, Sumukhi Suresh, Akash Gupta, Abhishek Upamanu and Azeem Banatwala. All Indian comics that are ten times more creative with their comedy, with Netflix and prime specials that deserve a watch from all comedy lovers. Their work is awesome and is so far removed from the tired alpha bro comedy that I'm tired of seeing constantly from American comics. I highly recommend their specials, especially Vir Das as a starter point, but, if you are down to discover something new, these comics are all brilliant.
😂😂 nah
I appreciate this!! I will look into them!
he probably resented his whole fanbase, like bieber. sometimes guys make fun of other guys who are "successful" (for want of a much better term) with women. A female fanbase is considered uncool and uncritical. He was probably always a misogynist.
As someone who has a son who had to wear special needs head wear due to his uncontrollable seizures. I hope Matt rife never has to actually visit a site like this. He should quickly humble himself.
If you really think about it though, for EVERY joke ever told there’s someone who’s tragically living exactly that scenario. If we cancel him for this one joke, we would have to cancel all stand-up comedians. Every single one!
No he won’t, he’s funny AF. If you don’t like his comedy, don’t watch it. Stavros and Tim Dillon make worse jokes than Matt Rife but I don’t see you people carrying pitchforks for their cancellation. Humble yourself, baby girl, or you’ll be miserable your whole life.
@@lenakorz1992oh my God be quiet, There is something very wrong with people who have to find issue with everything. Of course there's someone in that situation that doesn't take away from the joke it's self. Either laugh or keep it moving
@@gjmarkjesse1324 Ya but he can't get away with it because his whole audience is 20-year-old females. They can't take a joke.
@@Daniel-hf5nq nah he's reaching out to a broader audience now. He was only getting the 20 year fans because of tiktok, he's more well known now. He'll get away with it because I see a lot of people praising his stand up too, which I agree with.
Ethan and Hila are really good friends with Tom Segura and Christina P and both of their specialties is this really bombastic off the wall "let me say the most offensive disturbing thing possible" on stage and walk it back. So when they criticize stuff like that with Rife, especially since it's so minor compared to the stuff Tom and Christina say, it makes me feel like Ethan and Hila probably aren't as woke and as left as they present and that its probably just a big facade for their very woke liberal audience. Which is fine if they aren't, I'm not super woke myself but it's like they'd probably attractive an older audience that could handle being a little less woke if they were more upfront about it. I especially remember awhile back them having Tim Dillon call into the show and it was super awkward bc both Ethan and Hila were super into it and hyping him the fuck up and the crew was clearly not into it at all lol. I mean hell Ethans also good friends with Bobby Lee and Bad Friends is one of my favorite pods but they sure say at least one thing "cancelable" each week.
Lmao I rly don’t think it has anything to do with “wokeness”, it’s just hypocrisy plain and simple. They are their friends so they’re more likely to brush off the things they’ve said
BASED comment
I use to be a relatively big fan of their content and so on but I think you pretty much summed it up for me that their takes just aren't as genuine as they'd like us to believe. But what can ya do 😅🤷🏽♂️
It's almost as if what Jordan Peterson said to Ethan on Twitter was 100% true...
@@DarthMerlin What did he say? I don't have Twitter lol
I agree anything can be joked about but Olivia is right, the punchline of that joke is that a woman deserved to be hit for her cooking ability? It's just not good or funny. If a DV survivor wants to make DV jokes about what happened to them I'm all for it.
It’s just a joke Karen relax
I thought the joke was that the city they were at was so ratchet that DV was considered normal
@@Fred131_it's unfunny Matt, get off the alt account and work on your material
"you'd be all for it", except 95% of the people who complained about this one would still cancel a comedian DV survivor for any DV joke that isn't a PSA or a teaching lesson regardless of context.
sometimes you gotta look at the anger mob, the controlling mafia clan, and think how coherent and consistent you are vs how much you'd like to believe you're making the world better.
The autism jokes were funny and he was doing good crowd work. Domestic violence with a majority female fan base? Yeesh. Domestic violence jokes are kinda played out and we see so much of that type of humor over saturated in the “manosphere.” It’s actually exhausting.
I think comedians like Jessica Kirson and Matteo Lane hit Ethan’s “counter-Roganite” type of stand up that we really need more of for stand up to live on
Loveeee Matteo so much.
Matteo is absolutely hilarious!
Jessssssica is amazing!
Stand up will live on and Matts career will only grow for one simple reason. Because he did not apologise. Fortunately there are people who still remember that humour is subjective and if the joke hurt someones feelings they are free to not watch Matt or any other comedian, but other people found it funny and all we care about in comedy is having a laugh. Bill Burr is still hilarious and he was cancelled more times than anyone.
Like at the end of the day cancel culture is bullshit, and he'll be fine. He'll still make money, he'll still draw a crowd. He's probably limited his ultimate highest level of success at the very high end, but let's be real he was never gonna be a legendary act, and doing what he's doing is just an acknowledgement of that. He's angling to find a niche crowd and move forward collecting a check from them reliably for a few more decades.
People are offended about his “misogyny” while at the same time, dissing the women fans who like him, as if their likes are less important and a fluke to why he is popular.
I think Ethan’s right “theoretically you can make a joke about any situation in a way that’s tasteful and classy” “old-timey” is another way of saying this joke is easy and uncreative. he wants to change his audiences to straight white men go for it bro, looks like you’re doing it.
2:11- im sorry but are we just gonna ignore how ethan saw 2-9 and could not comprehend what it meant 😭
I felt like he was considering if it was the European dating or not. But why would he think that? haha
VPN?
What does it mean? help
It could mean Feb 9, or September 2, depending on the order.
2:10 It should be YYYY-MM-DD, then everyone would know what it meant.
i feel like this isnt the first time matt rife has made jokes like this, either. I swear I've seen clips of him saying similar things in sets so this doesnt surprise me at all
In recent months, he has repeatedly spoken out about how hard it is to be physically attractive as a comedian.
In an interview with Men’s Health back in August, he said: “I’ve been doing stand-up for a little over 12 years now. I will say, I don't think it helps you by any means - people don’t want to laugh at physically attractive people, you don’t want to walk on stage and have people looking at your arms rather than listening to your jokes.”
Somebody, help this poor opressed handsome white male successful comedian. Jesus christ, world's smallest violin ensues
Just say you hate whites and move on. He is now bad guy because he doesnt like that he doesnt get respect because of the way he was born
if olivia did a teddy fresh x Olivia collab for those glasses I'd totally buy them & clothes too.
Something tells me that his career is not ruined.
Yup! It’s not. We are supporting him!
Of course not. Leftists who get offended by everything think they are the majority when they are actually a very small minority that just happen to be loud.
Olivia totally hates Ethan, i always see like she feels Ethan does have some misogyny in him, cuz she stays silent for most of the time,but when she does get the guts to finally speak on something, ethan always cuts her off or brushes over what she said, and you can clearly see another example of that around 13:20
13:12
He's the same dude who touched Zandaya's face unprompted on some tv live show which caused people to dislike him, he then fixed his teeth and suddenly women started following him. Guess that's pretty privilege
He was also on Dropouts podcast, and Zac is one of the most edgy out of pocket comedians and Matt even stunned him for a second. Like he recovered, but paused for a moment when Matt told him to use the N word after he said he had a black adopted sibling
I've only ever seen Zac stunned that one time
god ive been saying it up and down with these comedians. Every comedy special I've watched recently is either about cancel culture and the trans community. Every comedian makes jokes about the same things now. It just comes off as lazy and out-of-touch to me.
Im a survivor of dv and i can laugh at jokes about it bc humor heals me. You can make that stuff funny but you gotta actually tell a joke.
Do you want a fucking medal?
Exactly. Comedy can be very healing. Comedians throughout history have known how to joke about any topic without punching down, but lately people think saying 'it was just a joke' after something offensive is peak comedy. It's so weird!
He told a joke
@@sAfgun123he did, not a good one but people are saying as if Matt said dv is awesome
@@sAfgun123 what’s the joke?
Special needs helmets are usually for people at high risk for having seizures or falls. My aunt wore one because she had seizures without warning and it helped protect her head when she fell.
Of course. We all know that. ❤
With peace and love. We can all still enjoy the special.
@@wonderquartzI don't know howvanyine can laugh at a guy stumbling around and looking desperate for an hour as he repeats old shit.
A mean spirited 13 year old can and has thought of these exact same bits. Theres nothing clever. You can make jokes that are shocking or offensive, but these have no wit or soul, and thats the problem
The number of bitter losers who spend their time following and commenting on H3 content just out of spite or something is absolutely wild.
I was about to say it’s always a crapshoot with the comments here, they’re either genuine fans who love and support the podcast or Rogan/Peterson/Crowder/Tate fans coming to collectively shit on someone they disagree with.
@@KealohaHarrisonor try to pretend to care about anyone that isn't a WASP f+scist male, while they themselves defend anyone who is 'cancelled' without actually looking at the reason why they're "canceled". Plus ironically, they say Ethan is weak or something, when all they do is stalk the h3 can base their entire personality around hating anything "woke or progressive". Because, none of these haters have grown as people since 2014.
Ethan was kind of screwed by circumstance. He used to collaborate with iDubbz and Filthy Frank when those were the edgiest channels and he was edgy himself. Now that edgy content can't be monitised, all three of those guys have tried to pretend that they aren't edgelords to their bones. The edgelord audience from back in those days is pissed off at Ethan because he does wokescolding on his podcast now and doesn't cater to that audience anymore.
I for one think that it is a travesty that TH-cam content can be demonitised for being too edgy. There was a crazy racism problem on TH-cam up until probably the end of the Obama years. I remember there was this one video called 'No Apologies' which was just saying how white people shouldn't apologise for slavery and colonialism because these things brought enlightenment to the more savage races. It had hundreds of thousands or million of views. It was gross and crazy. Ideally, TH-cam could design a system that polices hate content like that but allows for edgy, uncensored jokes or violence or uncensored news coverage. People saying 'unaliving' and 'essay' instead of suicide and rape is genuinely cartoonish, dystopian and completely pointless. I'd rather keep both the hate content and the uncensored good content than live in the censorship hell that TH-cam has become.
I've noticed most comment sections of most channels are full of people being like "wah wah wah you've changed" and I honestly dont get it. It's a v boomer move to be like "I'm not shopping here anymore. You've lost my business!" And we know how lame and useless it is. But the young people do it online. If you dont like someone or something, simply remove yourself and move on with your life. But it feels like most people are just living in hate. Whatever they hate they focus on. Esp politically. But then it.bleeds into everything and you eventually become what you hate. That's my opinion anyways.
@@williamhornabrook8081i agree and i feel like calling it essay or SA completely downplays the seriousness of what is being discussed, like it’s a horrible thing that happens and it should be spoken about properly, not shortened into something that can avoid the TH-cam censorship.
This was maybe just the best thing for his career
“Yeah guys come on, the only time something is funny is when I say it.”
-Ethan
taylor tomlinson is a perfect example who does great with a crowd and has funny specials on netflix. she’s the best stand up comedian
Her and Matteo lane are probably my favorite comedians. I like Demetri Martin too but I haven't heard much about him recently
Yes! I second this. Taylor is the best
It's pretty screwed up when I think a lot of his audience are women. Imagine building a career with female viewers and then insulting them.
Omg this is so frustrating because it’s a joke. It’s not like he’s attacking his audience by being serious. A comedian MAKES JOKES. If you can’t take a joke then don’t support a comedian???????
@@ashleycashly Ok?
@@ashleycashly i thought it's known that people do stop supporting him? Its the point of the video why you're so angry 😂
They think it’s funny because they know how to take a joke. You don’t understand intent.
his response was just terrible. its one thing to double down on your shitty, tired, and overused joke but to do so with an equally as shitty, tired, and overused joke? wooow, special place in hell for that behavior ngl.
Eh, I feel like people are being a little to sensitive about this. I heard the joke, i'm a DV survivor, I didn't get offended I just put my head down and chuckled because I personally like dark humor. That's what it is dark humor. I've heard comedians say "this isnt who i am, these are jokes" that can't be more true and there are levels.
Whoever got offended at this needs to watch George Carlin if you actually want to be offended lol
what blows my mind is he literally had everything like he was popular and good looking. the absolute LEAST he could do was just be a good guy. he did not have to go the edgy route, he had to have been bored or something. ew.
Nice comedians are the funniest...
How do you know he’s not a good guy? He just told an edgy joke, Jesus Christ. If you don’t find it funny that’s fine, but plenty of people did. That doesn’t mean he should be cancelled or vindicated because he told an offensive joke, grow up
@@wDoucheCanoe he’s not going to fuck you btw. I never said cancelled, I was literally a fan before LMAO.
This is a pathetic comment. 😂 "He didn't have to go the edgy route"
This event and the attempt to cancel him has done nothing but increase his popularity, this is the start of an exponential rise in his career.
the issue is that he is pandering to the men with a DV joke.
It’s just a joke Karen. He’s trying to weasel out the sensitive losers who can’t handle a joke.
I don't think stand up is tired now. I think knowing everything about a comic is killing it.
That's my opinion about actors, musicians and all celebrities. I liked when I didn't knew anything about their relationships and politics.
I really like Jimmy Carr as a comedian. he does very dark jokes about sensitive topics, but he still never „punches down“
also: shayne smith and matteo lane are pretty funny
The black eye joke probably could’ve been pulled off if the setup and delivery weren’t so weak. General Sam had a good one recently actually, in a video about microwaving thanksgiving dinner. He said “they made whole fuckin cook books for making entire meals with just a microwave, no wonder mfs used to beat the shit out of their wives. This is vile.” that one got me with a good chuckle
Exactly.
That aint funny either
@@itsokaybuttercup5882 yeah bad example lol
🍅 boo
ive never watched matt rife but so many friends of mine love him so I watched his special and was so confused bc it wasnt anything like he was described to me as. I had to google to make sure there werent two matt rifes in comedy lmfao
He is very overhyped
saw the two wholesome viral clips, myself, and then decided to check out his stuff and... wheeere did that accent come from??
Matt Rife's face gives me the uncanny valley feeling.
Matt's two TH-cam specials are really solid while his Netflix special is quite meh'.
I have the same opinion as Ethan, I mean really you could make a joke out of anything, I tend to cross the line at a few things just because there’s no way to make a joke that would ever be funny, but technically you could make the joke. I think that’s what people are forgetting when they do these stand up routines, just because you made the joke doesn’t mean it’s funny. Not everything out of your mouth is going to be a hit. I’m surprised with someone that basis his stand up off improv that he couldn’t read his audience enough to know that wasn’t the right move.
rationalizing how to properly act when you got audience captured in the cases where the audience belongs to an universally good category according to twitter.
Matt Rife is the single most audience captured comedian of the the current times, and you people talk about this shit on a daily basis with alt right, joe rogan and that type of camp. here however you're coaching how he should have done PR to maintain the female toxicity vibe as a product. despite a fuckton of women at his shows harassing him, which is actually what made the dude despite women audience in comedy and 99% why he went so hard on that.
which when you make example comparisons is the exact same thing as the bill burr philly incident or him shitting on his low IQ beer belly audience. I guess insulting someone's IQ and inability to be successful at life is a kinder joke than DV. those men could have changed it and just chose to become lawyers. you're so apolitical and empathetic.
the difference, is biblical levels of hypocrisy on your part. your belief that women can't be stereotyped but guys can (and should, as this very podcast showcases copious amounts of). that's literally it. that's why Matt Rife changed his tone, incidentally. because he got enough of your constant fake shit.
he said this multiple times in previous podcasts, he absolutely hates moral high ground women on the internet acting like moral authorities and vitcims and then treating him like a sex object including physical sexual harassment.
oh what's what? "you didn't touch him yourself?" sucks innit, still your fault, dedicate time to route out toxicity within your category because without the effort of women we will never get rid of this culture of toxic women - you made up those rules and you follow creators literally adopting this rulebook for their content creation. now it's all you. Do better.
I’m gonna be honest, starting the special w/ a domestic violence joke seemed like a calculated pr risk that he took. The controversy gave more exposure to him and his special and chances are he’ll just have to apologize or people will forget about it.
Where was the punch line?
matt rife is someone who got told he should do stand up because hes hot and slightly charming in one on one interactions. he forgot about the joke writing aspect of it though. stop telling ur friends they should become comedians because they are charming it doesnt translate that easy!!!
edit: only bring up the hot stuff cause hot people could sneeze and mfs would laugh
This is just blatantly untrue, he’s been doing comedy for over 10 years and he looked like an absolute geek for the vast majority of that time. He only got super jacked within the last few years.
actually he started when he was a pre-pubesent kid who had no physical appearance. xD but i think he blew up later after the "glow up"
@@bentley230 yes but he only got viral after he got his 6 veneers, a hot bod and fillers in his face. the funniest thing about matt is that he think his comedic talent is what make him popular
@@bentley230 yeah and who the fuck heard about him till he was jacked lol
I wish he would’ve told that joke to the hostess. Matt would’ve got his ass handed to him; he could’ve done his stand up with two black eyes. It’s wild he assumed a woman in Baltimore had a black eye from domestic violence and not from a regular fight. He’s out of touch on so many levels.
Erm….it’s a joke.
@@bunnystrasse ok
I cant wait for people to realise that the sharp cheekbones and jawline look isnt flattering for everyone. I actually think he looks weird and even creepy when he smiles now
Joe Rogan has destroyed many things, not just comedy.
The DV joke was a joke in bad taste, but, in general, Matt Rife seems like a good guy, and his jokes are pretty hilarious. My favorite bit of his was the joke about the ouija board girl.
He was trying to be edgy.
“DV”
Not DA😂😂😂
@@Doggiehoomanmomdomestic assault exists
@@Doggiehoomanmom😂😂🙄
He used to be on Nick Cannon’s Wild n Out show it’s not that surprising maybe for his newer fans but I don’t think this is the end of his career he’s just lost his initial audience
This special is for the guys…hey guys women, am I right? Here’s a tasteless DV joke!….crickets….
Good crowd work. His Netflix special was pants, terrible content.
isn’t it funny how his written jokes are the ones that suck but off the cuff is what built his career. like i know you have to write jokes to have a set and make sure you fill the time slot but…these jokes aren’t it man 💀
The alternate comedian is diversity shows. I saw a local all gay comedy show it was hosted by a lesbian and all the comedians were amazing. I have also seen black comedians and other comedians who were amazing. I think most of the comedians who say "you can't tell jokes anymore" are cishet white men.
Na yall buggin he is actively trying to get rid of the portion of women that go just to gawk at him.
Not really ruining his career... majority of the people who are talking about him right now didn't know who he was prior to this
I dont know about that. I do think he hasn't dissuaded enough people from coming out to see him to see a significant financial impact tho. Its not a big deal, it was just stupid to try to pander to men.
That doesn’t mean they’re watching him or liking him. you do ?
Nah, he's lost a large majority of his faithful female fan base
He just gained many new followers so it was all for the best
@@LKauf279 look at his followings.... he is good.
This hate train is blowing things out of proportion
I love how everyone in this comment section is trying to dissect his jokes and screen them for "appropriateness." Comedy is and will always be subjective, you idiots. Comedy is the last beacon of free speech we have at this point and it's continuously being attacked for "bad jokes" that go viral whether it's Rife or Tony Hinchcliffe. Cancel culture is destructive and is nothing more than a pity party for overly offended people who have nothing else of meaning going on in their lives.
Not exactly his fan but was recommended his videos in YT and he had some pretty good jokes in there…a bit flirty for my taste but he does…the autistic joke could go sideways but he saved it with the heist joke which honestly was really creative…i haven’t watched the Netflix special but I was hearing he went downhill after that…
Holly shit, its a real talent making 20 minutes of content out of a nothing joke. If a joke doesn't land, you move on
I thought that his appearance on Tom Segura was surprising to me.
He got into a couple things that made him sound a bit immature or weird.
With peace and love can we let Olivia speak 😭
Netflix keeps promoting the worst comedians.
I think this is blown way out of proportion. People will look for anything to complain and get mad about.
Yeah i honestly thought it was kinda funny tbh
Factsssssss
just because you didnt like the joke doesnt mean someone should get canceled for it. its not a new line of jokes. tons of people do these all the time but because hes popular rn its a problem >_>
I had no problem with the jokes but the response
„You can’t make jokes anymore“-.-
H3- stop saying that it’s getting old
„Well you can’t make jokes about not being allowed to make jokes anymore“-u-
His views are through the fckin roof. He is not hurt at all. Those they love him are making him rich. Those that hate him are making him even richer. Especially in social media there is no such thing as bad p r
For real. All this “cancelled” talk as if he’s not still generating a ton of views Amd currently at the top of trending on Netflix
As someone who has been a serious domestic abusive relationship! I didn’t care that he said that lol it doesn’t bother me who cares ….
and??? it could bother others. you aren't the ruler for what's offensive to DA victims.
this cancelation properly boosted his career more then harm for matt rife
I feel like instead of talking so much about problematic comedians, let's highlight comedians with real talent and high maturity level lol
when i first saw a clip of matt the very first time he walked up on stage n kinda stood there and said...i knoooo i know i look good... .. i heard nothing else after that
NOT 1 PERSON Clapped or laughed lol 😅
Comedians are like your kids. You act like you own them and they will disappoint you. They wont fit in the box you have for them even though its a nice music box with an antique 🔑 that performs a melody when turned.
a comedian usually gets more popular and famous by cancelling them. Ppl now want to see more of their material, I think this is an extremely calculated and smart move by Matt Rife, it's really hard to cancel a comedian when they are selling out shows and already have a large following.
I agree. I bet a lot of the people who like him now are just supporting him simply because other people are upset . It's probably not even the type of support a comedian gets simply for being funny. It's pretty cringe.
It’s all about insight and experience when it comes to jokes. A survivor of dv can make a dv joke and the fact that they have an experience and can relay it a certain way is what makes it funny. You know?
Absolutely agreed.
a joke about domestic violence is not betraying a whole gender. im not a fan of rife, but people are losing touch of the reality of humor. Nothings off limits like that
Matt has a following that's massive compared to this channel, and it feels like a bit of fomo.. jealousy.... And then to name off some of the most offensive comics ever, W. prior, Murphy and compare them to Rife . Wow. ... Pick a lane.
Then you call him a Roganite even though his career was WELL AND I MEAN WELLLLL before Rogan .. do your homework. This is a shock piece for views. Rife has and does have hundreds of millions of views & followers well before Rogan, F.YI.
And for anyone who wants to hate comment this, be my guest.
I am not saying Rife is perfection but at least he's honest and doesn't just do bullshit videos for views. His shit got views bc he did the work.
He's been honest about his work and fore warned people what his comedic tone would be. This video is amerutr. Next time, don't contradict your selves. Last Reminder Rifes videos have hundreds of millions. And....Y'all with 160k 😂😂 😂
I can count on 1 hand how many comedians today are actually funny.