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It’s also something I haven’t even been doing for that long… It became something that I had fun doing. RIFE: I like that it’s a surprise to me as well. What do you enjoy about interacting with the audience? I first came across you on TikTok and saw your hilarious crowd work videos. It took getting on TikTok and people having the opportunity to see my comedy to realize like oh, there’s actually a lot of people who share the same sense of humor I do. For a decade of doing comedy, I was so insecure and thinking to myself like, am I living in delusion? Am I not funny, am I not good at this to be doing it for so long … and nobody seems to be recognizing this? Like maybe I’m not funny. To go hand in hand with Netflix opportunity - for years, you don’t get this opportunity to get in front of a bunch of people because you’re relying on a network to give you an opportunity for a special, right? Now you have an app that’s in the palm of your hand that anybody has access to your video at any time… it gave me the most confidence in my career because I was so insecure for so long. But TikTok just has such an expansive algorithm. That was kind of the purpose with the first two specials, like maybe we can gain a following from this and we did a little bit.

So I mean, TikTok provided that exposure that I could not, for the life of me, for years figure out how to get. There are so many amazingly talented comedians out there who don’t get the right opportunities to be in the position that I’m in right now. Rarely do the funniest comedians get the recognition they deserve. I mean the name of this game is exposure at this point. RIFE: Oh, it’s changed absolutely everything. How do you feel social platforms like TikTok have impacted your career? You touch on social media and online trolls in your special. You have to be willing to be vulnerable and do the jokes you want to tell in your voice, in your comedy, to figure out who likes your comedy. You don’t know what people are into and that’s why you have to go out there and do your comedy and just lay it all out there vulnerably to find your audience. You might miss out on a joke that you’re worried might offend somebody, but might make you a million new fans. You have to be yourself and not worry about offending a certain amount of people. At the end of the day, I think you need to just go out there. I don’t believe there’s anything you can’t talk about if you do it correctly, in the right way, at the right time. It’s never any deeper, never any more or never any less than that. I know for me, everything that leaves my mouth on stage is purely with the intention of making people laugh. So how can you sleep at night? The way I look at it is, as a comedian everything comes down to intent. You know what I mean? Other people’s perspective of you isn’t your responsibility.

But at the end of the day, it all comes down to how do you sleep at night. Now, you have to prepare for repercussions. RIFE: I don’t really adhere to this whole sensitivity rumor in the comedy world that you can’t say anything anymore. Was there anything you were nervous to discuss or worried would offend people? In this special, you talk about kids, religion, finding your dad’s porn. They’ve given me the freedom to keep telling the jokes I want to tell and shoot things the way I want to shoot them. Netflix has been great about the entire creative process. We want to invite you to work with us.” It feels warm.

But to have somebody come from another level to be like, “Hey, we like what you’re doing. I was so grateful for how much people liked it. What do I do? So I had to put them out on my own, which was very validating in and of itself. But I was like, I don’t know what to do with it. My first two specials I had to do because I’d been doing comedy for 10 and 11 years when I did them, and I was sitting on material. That’s a huge accomplishment after putting together all of your previous specials.

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