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The Guy Behind MattRife.com Isn’t the Jackass You Think He Is

What if you woke up one morning to discover that you share a name with the most controversial comic on the planet? It’s happened in the past to all the non-showbiz folks named Michael Richards, Bill Maher or Roseanne Barr. And this year, the phenomenon has created a decided uptick in wayward web traffic over at mattrife.com. For the record, the site’s owner is not that Matt Rife. 

Wanda Sykes: Comedians Can ‘Say Whatever You Want to Say’

A certain contingency of comedians in 2023 continue to argue that telling jokes about sensitive subjects is basically illegal nowadays. Wanda Sykes told them to tell it to her Grammy nomination.

In this past May’s Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer, Sykes tactfully tackled subjects such as abortion, transphobia and critical race theory without pandering or being brutishly provocative. It’s a delicate balance, of course, being incisive and funny at the same time — which is presumably why so many comedians choose to be neither when they use hot-button issues as fodder for their dude-bro bullshit.

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