Matt Rife: Stay Golden Tour

Hugely popular comedian Matt Rife announced his 2025 Stay Golden Tour with 32 arena and amphitheater shows across North America. The tour will see Matt playing the biggest rooms of his career thus far, including his first-ever headline show at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.

The Stay Golden Tour follows Matt’s wildly successful ProbleMATTic World Tour, which saw the comedian sell over 600,000 tickets across 250+ shows in less than 48 hours following the announcement in June 2023. The multi-year tour included shows across North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia.

Rife brings forth his refreshingly genuine presence along with elevated material that is quick witted and vulnerable. From a small town near Columbus Ohio,Matt started performing at the age of fifteen then moved out to Los Angeles two years later where he beganhis career in Hollywood.

In 2021, Rife self-produced and distributed through YouTube hisfirst one-hour comedy special,”Only Fans”. In April 2023, the comedian bet on himself again and self-released his second stand-up special,”Matthew StevenRife”on YouTube.Thespecial was taped in Austin, TX and is dedicated to his biggest rolemodel, his grandfather Steven who had recently passed. Only a couple months later, Rife decided to release a crowd work special, Walking Red Flag on YouTube, which has amassed over13 million views.He also earned placement on the Forbes list for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023 and top creators list in 2024.

On November 15th, 2023, the comedian released his highly anticipated third stand-up special, Matt Rife: Natural Selection on Netflix, which garnered outstanding numbers including over 10.3 million views in its first two weeks and earning a Top 10 ranking in 42 countries including #1 in US, Canada, and South Africa. Natural Selectionwas the most viewed special on Netflix for the second half of 2023. From the overwhelming success of his first Netflix special, Rife inked a two-special deal along with a development deal for a gym/workplace comedy series that he will write and star in. The deal with Rife included Netflix’s first ever crowd work special, Lucid , which debuted onAugust 13th, 2024 and again cemented him in the top 10 most watched shows in 37 countries on the streamer for two weeks.

In addition to stand-up, he made his television debut on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out as the youngest cast member in history for four seasons before moving on to other MTV properties, such as hosting the reboot of TRL and appearing on The Challenge. Other credits include Fresh Off The Boat, NBC’s comedy competition show Bring The Funny, and Netflix’s That 90’s Show.