Matt Rife believes he gets trolled because people are ‘jealous of him’.
The 28-year-old appeared on Tana Mongeau’s podcast Cancelled, where the two began discussing how they’re viewed in the public eye.
The comedian said he recently had a ‘humbling epiphany’ that people only hate him because they’re jealous of his success.
Well, my mum said the same thing about the bullies at school who used to trip me down the hallway - they were merely ‘confused fans’, envious of my curtain bangs and my Nintendo 64 console.
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Sorry, I digress.
The TikTok star told Tana: “Here’s a very humbling epiphany that I’ve had recently, because so many f**king people hate me for really no reason, and it made me realise that people only hate somebody they’re jealous of.
“I’ve been guilty of hating people.
“And when I really sat back and thought about it, it was because I was jealous of where that person was in their life, like, I felt like they got an opportunity that maybe I should have gotten.”
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However, Tana was quick to bring Rife back down to planet Earth.
“That’s a really, really good well-rounded answer that I’m trying to wrap my head around,” she said.
Here comes the kicker.
Tana said: “Do you think people who hate Osama bin Laden are just jealous of him?”
Many condemned the funny man’s comments. You could say they were ‘rife’ with anger - oh, I had to.
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One user took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and wrote: “Crying over Matt Rife on Tana’s podcast looking like an idiot.”
Another said: “I don’t think anyone has ever been jealous of Matt Rife he’s about as entertaining as a nickel.”
While a third commented: “Because I have not watched Tana in years I forgot how f**king funny she is. Like how stupid do you have to be to say your most humbling epiphany is that people are jealous of you stfu Matt Rife.”
Rife recently copped backlash for his Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, where he opened the show with a domestic violence joke.
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In the show, the comedian tells a story about being in a restaurant in Baltimore and being served by a waitress with a black eye.
He says: "But we couldn’t get over, like, this is the face of the company? This is who you have greeting people?
"And my boy, who I was with, was like, ‘Yeah, I feel bad for her, man, I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face'.
"And I was like, ‘Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.'”
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It didn’t take long for many to slam the joke via social media, as one X user said: "Oof... that's pandering to the lowest of the low."
While another chimed in: "'To see if you are fun or not'. If I need to put up with jokes about being punched in the face for not being a good enough servant, then I'm completely unbothered if you don't find me 'fun'.”
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/ CANCELLED with Tana Mongeau