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Matt Rife on How TikTok Stopped Him from Quitting Comedy | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · 4,937,706 views · Added 1 month ago

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00:01

-You feel the love there? -Dude, I am so underdressed.

00:03

You didn't tell me what I was following.

00:05

Are you kidding me?

00:06

-Sorry. There's John Oliver feathers around.

00:08

I apologize if you're allergic. -No apology.

00:09

I actually ran into him earlier.

00:10

He tried to sell me a CD at Times Square

00:12

in that same outfit.

00:13

-Yeah, that wasn't him. That wasn't --

00:15

-That wasn't? -That was Elmo, yeah.

00:16

-Oh, got it.

00:18

-But I want to talk to you about everything in your whole career,

00:21

but I want to get to know you a little bit, too.

00:22

I just want to say, your ProbleMATTic World Tour --

00:26

you announced it.

00:27

And in 48 hours, you sold 600,000 tickets.

00:30

-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]

00:32

-Dude. -Insane. I know. I know.

00:33

-What does that feel like?

00:35

-I mean, it feels incredible, man.

00:36

I went from -- I mean, literally, July of last year,

00:38

I was considering quitting comedy and everything.

00:40

I couldn't sell any tickets at any comedy club.

00:42

I wasn't getting any kind of break.

00:44

So, from going from playing clubs for 35 people

00:48

who got free tickets to we broke Ticketmaster, which is insane.

00:52

So, yeah, Travis Kelce, if it doesn't work out,

00:54

holler at your boy.

00:55

-Yeah. Yeah. -It's been unreal, man.

00:58

My entire life has changed in a matter of like 14 months.

01:00

I'm so grateful.

01:02

-I heard about this story.

01:04

I kind of related to you because you started comedy around 15?

01:08

-Yeah, 15. Yeah. -Wow!

01:10

-My my grandpa used to take me

01:11

to the Columbus Funny Bone in Ohio every Wednesday,

01:14

and it was a bringer show, like a lot of open mics are,

01:16

where you have to bring --

01:17

-Oh, a bringer, yeah. -Yeah.

01:18

Usually, like five people who have to pay for tickets.

01:21

-The way it works is, if you go and perform,

01:22

you have to actually bring five people

01:24

that buy tickets and buy drinks.

01:25

-Yeah. And hope they laugh. -And hope that they laugh.

01:27

Yeah, they just want business. -Oh, of course.

01:29

-They don't really care about your career.

01:30

-No, not at all. And all my friends were still

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