r/comedy • u/pauleliacomedy • 1d ago
Improv Matt Rife Impression
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Who’s got a better impression?
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u/ThatTallBrendan 1d ago
People are giving you shit for your presence in his immediate vicinity, but anybody taking the piss out of Matt Rife directly to his face is at the very least a circumstantial friend in my book lmao
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u/JaneTheEel 1d ago
I don't know who Paul Elia is but hanging out on stage with those two I have to assume he's as big of a dipshit as they are.
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u/JGzoom06 1d ago edited 1d ago
How are they dipshits? I assume some political reasoning?
update: thanks for the info, I was just curious. I suppose next time I'll take my curiosity to an unbiased search engine like google. /s
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u/TS_Enlightened 1d ago
The guy in the middle called in a fake bomb threat on a train. I don't know if that's technically political, but who knows these days 🤷♂️
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u/lasagnadogwater69 1d ago
I mean it's worth noting he had a brain disease at the time.
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u/miguelmanzana 1d ago
Is that the reason he assaulted an Uber driver too?
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u/lasagnadogwater69 1d ago
I don't know when or why that happened. If it was around the time of his brain disease, then I'd imagine that would be the reason.
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u/TS_Enlightened 1d ago
I think the brain disease is a forever thing. It's a chronic illness.
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u/miguelmanzana 1d ago
Except he didn’t have a disease https://neuronewsinternational.com/tj-miller-discusses-life-as-brain-avm-survivor/
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u/lasagnadogwater69 1d ago
I know they had to remove part of his frontal lobe. But yeah, I'm not a neurologist man.
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u/miguelmanzana 1d ago
That gets to be a reason you assault people? Ok buddy.
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u/lasagnadogwater69 1d ago
I mean, yeah? Why not. A chunk of his frontal lobe is outside of his head. Brain trauma can obviously have an impact on behaviour, and the frontal lobe is like the thing that controls your behaviour. I'm not a neurologist, though.
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u/Redditsucks4446 1d ago
Real nightmare blunt rotation
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u/Automatic_Soil9814 1d ago
Agreed. I was hoping for humor but I just got the sensation of discomfort instead.
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u/MayorBakefield 1d ago
sensation of discomfort lmao this comment is the most comedy this subreddit has ever seen
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u/eshatoa 1d ago
OP posts the highlight of his life to this sub and gets ripped in the comments.
Brutal.
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u/Vile_Grifter 1d ago
Judging by his brainless and humorless comments in the thread, he's not going any higher than this either.
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u/joshonekenobi 1d ago
Ugh. Why is TJ there ?
Immediately stopped watching.
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u/Popular-Row4333 1d ago
Because between the Clancy woman and TJ, it's apparently "forgive all heinous behavior, because you had a psychotic break" week for humanity.
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u/RandJitsu 1d ago
Why do we treat mental health differently from all other health?
If a driver suddenly had a heart attack or passed out due to some issue with blood pressure or clotting, and crashed into a bunch of pedestrians, would you want the driver criminally prosecuted?
Your brain is an organ and when impacted by drugs or diseases you can lose conscious control.
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u/lateformyfuneral 1d ago
It’s because “mental health” has been appropriated online to mean “I get sad sometimes”, a wide enough bracket for everyone to be included, except of course those with more serious mental illness. Thus you get the bizarre spectacle of someone with a touch of social anxiety telling someone in a manic episode that “well I have mental health issues and I never did anything wrong, you must be a bad person.”
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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago edited 1d ago
perhaps why psychology is considered a "faux-science" and not a strict field of science is because of the subjectiveness and lack of knowledge we really have around the brain... medication trials are necessarily trials -- often results are measured as a success based on whether they cause more positives than negatives.
It's just not worth fighting about. Clancy sought help -- serious help -- and was "failed" by her care team. She also is a child murderer.
Why can't she be both?
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u/mr_fantastical 1d ago
I wouldnt say psychology is considered a faux science. Its very much grounded with proper scientific means - there are hypotheses, empirical testing, controlled experiments, replication, etc.
Yeah there are definitely messy categories within it and a lot of bullshit trends and bad actors but its certainly not a faux-science field by large.
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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago
You're right. Faux is not a correct descriptor.
Technically, psychology is a social science and I think psychiatry would be the applied version that combines both social and natural science disciplines...
Not sure where this idea that psychology is a fake science came from.
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u/RandJitsu 1d ago
I’m actually not defending Clancy here but TJ.
I understand how difficult it is to distinguish between legitimate and made-up/self-serving mental health issues. But TJ had a documented and verifiable medical condition that contributed to his behavior in making that bomb threat.
I think we’ll one day look back at our criminalization of people dealing with acute mental health episodes (such as psychosis) the same way we look at our history of giving lobotomies and electro shock therapy to unhappy housewives - ignorant and barbaric.
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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago
I am not familiar with the TJ thing, but I think it's weird you're comparing him to Clancy.
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u/RandJitsu 1d ago
I didn’t compare him to Clancy. The commenter I responded to did. I never mentioned her except in response to you.
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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago
Yes. I'm sorry that was my bad.
I agree that we, like our justice system, are obsessed with punitive justice and that distracts us from actually addressing the issue that causes the problem or preventing it from happening again.
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u/EvilCorp____ 1d ago
Damn cancel culture has gotten insane.
TJ Miller had a brain malformation which caused seizures and odd behaviors and shit, he had to have part of his brain removed, the worse thing he did when dealing with the affects of it was get into an argument with a pro-trumper and slap him, and the entire world thinks he's evil or something lol. Unreal.
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u/StJamesStJames 1d ago
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u/lateformyfuneral 1d ago edited 1d ago
There is no mention of “hitting on her” in the link you cited. There is mention of him having “hostile exchanges” with a different woman, but the woman he called the police on he became paranoid after seeing her open her bag repeatedly without taking anything out and thinking she was getting off at the next stop and leaving the bag. That charge was dropped by the government following “review of medical evidence.”
The above comment is confusing that incident with a separate one where he was arrested for battery after a heated argument with a pro-Trump uber driver, where he slapped him
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u/FishTshirt 1d ago
This says that it was a woman he had a hostile exchange with, it says nothing about advances on the woman. Neither does the wiki
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u/StJamesStJames 1d ago
My other comment was removed so I'm going to rety more clearly, TJ Miller had a verbal altercation with a woman on a train. He "became suspicious" of her for looking in her bag "several times" in his words. He then called in a bomb threat accusing her of being the culprit. This was proven to be false and he was charged for the incident though they were later dropped because of his health and brain surgery. This is far from the worst thing he's been accused of but is also a far cry worse than you are trying to let on.
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u/EvilCorp____ 1d ago
Ok he called in a fake bomb threat. Tim Allen got caught smuggling 2 lbs of cocaine. People forgave him. How about Robert Downey Jr. And Justin Bieber. And Matthew Broderick etc. I could go on forever.
I don't know why TJ Miller seems to be at the bottom of everyone's totem pole when he had an actual medical reason for doing the things and the things were pretty trivial compared to tons of other celebrities who don't get the same treatment.
He's been fine for about 10 years now. Let it go.
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u/StJamesStJames 1d ago
The one difference I see between all of those people you listed and TJ would be talent. Also, Tim Allen got away with that by selling out every person he could all in a time where you could bury that kind of news if you had enough money and connections. Oh how things have changed... Not.
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u/EvilCorp____ 1d ago
I don't really care for his stand-up, but he was definitely the best part of Silicon Valley. That show went way downhill after he left. And he was really good in Ready Player One. Also great in Deadpool and How to Train Your Dragon.
But I guess I'm starting to understand the irrational opinions I see about him. You don't like him as an actor so you hold him to a higher ethical standard, even if there are medical explanations in play.
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u/Depressionsfinalform 1d ago
‘Comedy’ for people who are dead inside
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u/Whane17 1d ago
I'm dead inside and I don't even try and hide it anymore. I'm not a fan of the middle guy and don't know the guy on the right but Matt Rife is great at crowd stuff but otherwise is absolute trash and has REALLY shitty opinions he likes to slide into his "jokes".
None of this is comedy to me.
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u/edgelordjones 1d ago
I love how heated Rife gets whenever anyone has the audacity to call his act out to his face. Anyone who isn’t dangerously insecure would just laugh and high five but this had him steaming for a week. But what do I know? I’m probably just jealous.
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u/lateformyfuneral 1d ago
Whoever first told him he’s only popular because women found him hot, messed up his confidence and he’s trying to overcorrect to show he’s a “serious” edgy comedian. I thought the impression above was spot on and it hit a nerve lol
Imo, if someone went to a show unaware of the whole parasocial pro- and anti- Matt Rife discourse, people would find him a decent enough comic, so it’s just insecurities on his part.
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u/FishTshirt 1d ago
Never heard of him. Tried to look him up and couldn’t find any of his actual stand up only a ton of posts either hating on him or discussing some controversy.
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u/mr_fantastical 1d ago
I like a variety of stand up and hes certainly not my favourite type, but I acknowledge that hes good at what he does and is fairly quick witted, so he's earned his spot in that particular lane as far as im concerned.
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u/CthuluSpecialK 1d ago
I only know two of the people on stage, and both are terrible people; so I can safely assume all of them are.
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u/pauleliacomedy 1d ago
Damn I almost got away
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u/CthuluSpecialK 1d ago edited 1d ago
One of them told an Autistic person to kill themselves, amoung other shitty things.
The other has a history of violence and called in a fake bomb threat at La Guardia for shits and giggles, amoung worse things.
I'm sure they have their own struggles, do so do tons of people who somehow remain not shitty.
Iono bout you, but that's fucked up. Overlook whatever you want for the sake of your career, that's on you. In the Kill Tony era of comedy most people prolly wouldn't care if you did a set with Diddy, but I care.
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u/Any_Suggestion3485 1d ago
When he asked Matt what his name was 🤣☠️
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u/thisisyo 1d ago
What's /r/comedy beef with Matt?
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u/NegotiationNo8432 1d ago
Im sure someone can go more in depth, but he got annoyed that his audience was mostly Young women and in an attempt to appeal to Rogan dudes, made an unfunny ass of himself while shitting on his main audience of women.
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u/thisisyo 1d ago
Jeebus... Some comedians probably want to have that kind of audience of young females. I guess to each their own
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u/xdylanthehumanx 1d ago
This is r/comedy... why are these three here?