EXCLUSIVE: Netflix introduced on Thursday that Matt Rife: Lucid – A Crowd Work Particular, its second particular from comic Matt Rife, is ready to premiere globally on the service on August 13.
Try a trailer above.
Marking Netflix’s first one-hour crowd work particular, Rife’s new hour is certainly one of two developing, below a cope with the streamer on which we had been first to report. It comes following the November launch of Matt Rife: Pure Choice, the comedian’s third particular, which was probably the most considered on Netflix for the second half of 2023, garnering over 10.3 million views in its first two weeks and incomes a High 10 rating in 42 international locations together with #1 within the U.S., Canada, and South Africa.
Filmed at The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lucid is directed by Rife’s longtime pal Erik Griffin. Rife exec produced alongside his supervisor Christina Shams, in addition to Daniel Powell and Alex Bach for Irony Level, which served because the manufacturing firm.
At present, Rife is on the street for his “ProbleMATTic World Tour,” one of many largest in over 20 years, for which he final yr bought round 600,000 tickets over the span of simply 48 hours. Highlights from the Stay Nation tour have included 4 sold-out exhibits at The Dolby Theater in Hollywood, a document 5 consecutive sold-out performances on the Mohegan Solar Area in Connecticut, and the sale of over 17,000 tickets on the Hollywood Bowl, as Rife grew to become the youngest stand-up comedian to promote out the venue throughout Netflix Is a Joke Fest.
Blowing up final yr on TikTok and seeing his profession hit the stratosphere nearly in a single day, Rife has amassed over 35.6 million followers and over 2.5 billion views globally on social media. From a small city close to Columbus, Ohio, he began performing on the age of 15 and moved to Los Angeles two years later in pursuit of a profession in Hollywood. Self-financing his first one-hour particular, Solely Followers, and releasing it on YouTube in 2021, he once more wager on himself two years later as he took the identical strategy along with his follow-up, Matthew Steven Rife, earlier than making his technique to Netflix. Beforehand, he additionally launched the gang work particular Strolling Purple Flag on YouTube, seeing it amass over 13 million views.
Rife made his tv debut on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out because the youngest forged member in historical past for 4 seasons earlier than shifting on to different MTV properties, similar to internet hosting the reboot of TRL and showing on The Problem. Different credit embody Brooklyn 9-9, Contemporary Off the Boat, BET’s North of the ten, NBC’s comedy competitors present Carry the Humorous and Netflix’s That ’90s Present. Moreover, he’s at the moment in improvement on a office comedy set in a gymnasium, which he’ll write and star in for Netflix.
Rife is represented by Shams’ Avesta Leisure, UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
