Matt Rife will convey his new Keep Golden comedy tour to the Golden State.
The comedian, who has made waves within the stand-up scene lately, introduced Tuesday that he’ll take his materials on the street with a brand new tour set to launch in 2025. Rife’s Keep Golden Tour begins with a March 8 cease in Dallas and can embrace 4 stops throughout California.
The 29-year-old funnyman will carry out at Fresno’s Save Mart Enviornment on April 12 earlier than heading south for an April 13 present at San Diego’s Viejas Enviornment. Within the fall, he’ll return to California for an Oct. 18 gig at the Honda Heart in Anaheim and a Oct. 19 efficiency on the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountainview. In between his California commitments, Rife will even make stops in Honolulu, New York Metropolis, Montreal, Seattle and St. Louis, amongst different cities.
Rife’s last Keep Golden cease, no less than for now, might be a New Yr’s Eve present at Boston’s TD Backyard. Common ticket gross sales start Friday at midday native time, however artist presale begins Wednesday at midday native time.
Rife is finest recognized for his quick-witted crowd work, which earned him TikTok virality in 2022. Since then he’s additionally gained reputation for the particular “Matthew Steven Rife,” launched in April 2023, and his Netflix debut “Matt Rife: Natural Selection,” launched in November 2023.
The Ohio-born comedian additional established his comedy cred when he grew to become the youngest slapstick comedian to promote out the Hollywood Bowl in the course of the second installment of the Netflix Is a Joke Competition in Could. His newest particular, “Lucid: A Crowd Work Special,” debuted on Netflix in August.
A Forbes 30 Underneath 30 honoree, Rife returns to touring after his colossal ProbleMATTic World Tour, which touted greater than 100 dates spanning two calendar years (from July 2023 to October 2024) and three continents. Halfway by way of the tour in Could, Rife revealed that the “extreme exhaustion” from performing and touring had caught as much as him and led him to cancel a pair of Indiana exhibits.
“I felt like I was legitimately dying,” Rife advised The Occasions in an August interview. “It’s embarrassing, man, because everybody around me saw this coming. … Everybody’s only response was, ‘Can’t believe this didn’t happen sooner.’”
Regardless of the temporary well being scare, Rife advised The Occasions his profession trajectory had far exceeded his expectations. “If I could ever sell out a comedy club one time ever, that’s the epitome of what I think a comedian probably could be,” he mentioned.
With Rife heading off a profitable yr and into his Keep Golden Tour, it’s clear that for him, comedy has develop into way more.