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Matt Rife criticized for DV joke; responds with link to special needs helmets
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:00 am
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:00 am
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Matt Rife’s response to Netflix controversy a link to website for special needs helmets
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Comedian Matt Rife has ignited controversy with his Netflix special “Natural Selection,” which launched Nov. 15 on the streaming service. The special kicks off with a joke about domestic violence. In what appeared to be an apology posted to his Instagram story, Rife directed anyone offended by his jokes to a link that led them to a website for special needs helmets.
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At the beginning of Rife’s “Natural Selection,” he tells a story about being in a “ratchet” Baltimore restaurant with a friend and noticing their female server has a black eye. They wonder why the restaurant wouldn’t have the server work solely in the kitchen so that customers wouldn’t see her black eye. Rife jokes, “Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.”
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Rife tells the crowd the joke was him “just testing the waters, seeing if y’all are gonna be fun or not.” He adds: “I figure if we start the show with domestic violence the rest of the show should be smooth sailing.”
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The joke generated controversy on social media in the days following the streaming debut of “Natural Selection,” so much so that Rife took to his Instagram story on Nov. 20 to issue a mock apology. “If you’ve ever been offended by a joke I’ve told, here’s a link to my official apology,” he wrote alongside a link that said: “Tap to solve the issue.” When tapped, the link brought followers to a health website where they could purchase special needs helmets. Mocking viewers upset with his domestic violence joke by evoking special needs only added more fuel to the controversy.
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I’m not a Matt Rife fan, but we need more responses like this to the sensitivity mobs.
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Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:01 am to StringedInstruments
frick yea 
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:04 am to StringedInstruments
Leftists have ruined comedy. Can’t joke about anything without having to worry some gaping vagina will get their feeling hurt.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:04 am to StringedInstruments
Funny is just funny, and that was hilarious
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:04 am to 610man
i'm ok with this...
so sick of cancel culture. 90% of jokes are going to offend something or someone today. The guy makes his living telling jokes....
so sick of cancel culture. 90% of jokes are going to offend something or someone today. The guy makes his living telling jokes....
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:05 am to StringedInstruments
This special was certainly not his best work, but that response redeemed it.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:06 am to StringedInstruments
Sounds like a black comedy routine along the lines of Christopher Titus.
Titus tells some mildly offensive jokes early in the routine to some boos and responds to the audience that they are just getting started.
In Titus’ case, at least one routine played hopscotch with the line of offensive and funny by promoting torture of pedophile priests and yelling at the priest to “take it like a man”… then stopping to apologize to little Johnny who had been told that same thing by the priest in question while being abused.
Titus tells some mildly offensive jokes early in the routine to some boos and responds to the audience that they are just getting started.
In Titus’ case, at least one routine played hopscotch with the line of offensive and funny by promoting torture of pedophile priests and yelling at the priest to “take it like a man”… then stopping to apologize to little Johnny who had been told that same thing by the priest in question while being abused.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:06 am to TopWaterTiger
Andrew Schultz makes that joke look like a knock-knock joke.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:07 am to StringedInstruments
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“If you’ve ever been offended by a joke I’ve told, here’s a link to my official apology,” he wrote alongside a link that said: “Tap to solve the issue.” When tapped, the link brought followers to a health website where they could purchase special needs helmets.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:08 am to StringedInstruments
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:10 am to StringedInstruments
I guess they don't care about Amy Schumer's special that starts off talking about fricking children. I wonder why.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:11 am to StringedInstruments
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If you’ve ever been offended by a joke I’ve told, here’s a link to my official apology,” he wrote alongside a link that said: “Tap to solve the issue.” When tapped, the link brought followers to a health website where they could purchase special needs helmets. Mocking viewers upset with his domestic violence joke by evoking special needs only added more fuel to the controversy.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:11 am to toosleaux
Who admits to watching Amy Schumer’s routines?
Only ones of hers I have seen were Comedy Central Roast sets before she blew up… and got really famous too.
Only ones of hers I have seen were Comedy Central Roast sets before she blew up… and got really famous too.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:13 am to StringedInstruments
fricking Liberals are the absolute worst. They're soft, unstable, and as unfunny as can be.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:13 am to StringedInstruments
This is how you double and triple down --- and not back down to those who are offended.
If you are offended, that's your own personal issue. Don't like what he has to say? Don't attend or don't listen on social media. It's actually a really simple premise.
Hats off to Matt.
If you are offended, that's your own personal issue. Don't like what he has to say? Don't attend or don't listen on social media. It's actually a really simple premise.
Hats off to Matt.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:13 am to toosleaux
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Amy Schumer
The next funny female comedian I see will be the first.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:14 am to StringedInstruments
That's how he and a lot of the darker comedians feel. Censorship is not good. Chappelle, Segura, Carr, Jeselnik, Norman
All on the same page as him
And I forget who said it, probably Chappelle, but someone's triggers are not the problem of everyone else
That's why I said frick Lafayette when they got all bitchy about Segura's Cajun jokes
All on the same page as him
And I forget who said it, probably Chappelle, but someone's triggers are not the problem of everyone else
That's why I said frick Lafayette when they got all bitchy about Segura's Cajun jokes
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:14 am to StringedInstruments
People are so damn soft these days.
They'd really flip if Stanhope was coming up during these times. They'd probably stone him to death.
They'd really flip if Stanhope was coming up during these times. They'd probably stone him to death.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:17 am to StringedInstruments
That's great.
Posted on 11/22/23 at 11:17 am to teke184
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Who admits to watching Amy Schumer’s routines?
Absolute hypocrite who deserves her recent failings. She's free to make all her shitty jokes on stage or in awful movies, but one (gay) kid makes a funny joke at her expense and she flips out
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