A biography for Matt Rifehasn’t been written yet.
“You don't want to walk on stage and people are looking at your arms rather than listening to your jokes. I think it just makes me work that much harder.”
“I'm an incredibly introverted person, which is crazy because my job is literally talking in front of people.”
“People don't want to laugh at physically attractive people.”
“My passion is in film and television, acting, and development, and that's really where I want my career to go.”
“Just because somebody does something that you don't like doesn't mean that they're the devil. That's crazy.”
“I never want to hurt anybody's feelings.”
“I'll never be as funny as a regular Black dude.”
“I was so ugly for so long.”
“It's rarely the loudest person in the room who's asking for the attention that's the most interesting person to talk to.”
“I don't think I'm hot at all.”
“I don't feel like I lost any female fans. I felt like I lost people who built an image of me that I did not live up to, which is on them. I've just been me, and we don't happen to have the same sense of humor and that's fine.”
“If you want to do something, sometimes you just have to do it on your own.”
“Nobody could be meaner than me if I really wanted to be.”
“There's a bunch of really good comedians who I've known for years.”
“I grew up on my Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams - all those guys.”
“There's no crash course on how to be famous.”
“For 11 straight years, I woke up pretty much every single day with nothing to do unless I created something to do.”
“I never plan to do crowd work, and I always emphasize that if you're coming to my show exclusively to see that, don't come.”
“I'd love to box Harry Styles.”
“One of the biggest misconceptions of things I get ridiculed online for is people are like 'Oh, he only has a female fan base.' In the beginning yes, because I did blow up on TikTok which is very female dominant.”