Matt Rife will deliver 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 highway 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 embody 4 stops throughout California.
The 29-year-old funnyman will carry out at Fresno’s Save Mart Area on April 12 earlier than heading south for an April 13 present at San Diego’s Viejas Area. Within the fall, he’ll return to California for an Oct. 18 gig at the Honda Middle in Anaheim and a Oct. 19 efficiency on the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountainview. In between his California commitments, Rife may even make stops in Honolulu, New York Metropolis, Montreal, Seattle and St. Louis, amongst different cities.
Rife’s remaining Keep Golden cease, not less than for now, shall be a New 12 months’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 identified 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 turned the youngest slapstick comedian to promote out the Hollywood Bowl through the second installment of the Netflix Is a Joke Pageant in Could. His newest particular, “Lucid: A Crowd Work Special,” debuted on Netflix in August.
A Forbes 30 Beneath 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 via 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 reveals.
“I felt like I was legitimately dying,” Rife instructed 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 transient well being scare, Rife instructed 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 stated.
With Rife heading off a profitable 12 months and into his Keep Golden Tour, it’s clear that for him, comedy has change into rather more.