Current Events > Recently discovered two (crowd work) comedians lately

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First one is Troy Bond. Idk what exactly it is about him but...I'm not feeling him. His jokes are more miss than hit, and then running into multiple clips of him screaming SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! to hecklers was just...really off putting. Like...if you're a crowd work specialist...then shut them down with your jokes. Don't turn into some petulant child and shout at them.

Matt Rife has been the opposite. Really witty, really quick. And just overall seems to have good vibes. I haven't seen a lot of clips with him and hecklers but I think it's more because he doesn't roast the audience as hard and again, just seems to be overall more good vibes type dude.

I don't have the biggest knowledge of crowd workers. Don't even know if Matt Rife counts as one. Only really knew of Andrew Schultz from before and he was really good imo

Crowd work is a small part of Matt Rifes standup but its pretty much what he almost exclusively uploads so thats what you see plastered online everywhere.

archizzy posted...

Crowd work is a small part of Matt Rifes standup but its pretty much what he almost exclusively uploads so thats what you see plastered online everywhere.

Ah okay thanks for elaborating. Well he still seems like an upright fella. Kinda what I like about him and Schultz. Even tho Schultz goes hard on the roasting, he at least tries to play cool with the audience sometimes and he's knowledgeable about a lotta cultures. Troy just seems so tryhard and edgy when he's roasting and a lotta the jokes missing for me doesn't help.

archizzy posted...

Crowd work is a small part of Matt Rifes standup but its pretty much what he almost exclusively uploads so thats what you see plastered online everywhere.

Unless you're an A lister already, you kind of not want to upload the A material for everyone to watch and not be interested in going to your performances. Makes sense.