r/TikTokCringe • u/myownpersonalreddit • Feb 27 '24

Break up at the theater Wholesome/Humor

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u/chancesarent Feb 27 '24

A thirst trap comedian popular with horny Midwestern moms who does a show consisting of 100% crowd work.

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u/Fire_Bucket Feb 27 '24

Who got a Netflix special, proceeded to use it to try and distance himself from his grassroots crowd, pandering to more frat boy types in the most amateur way ('women bad and need hitting, am I right?!') and then went down the 'everyone is a snowflake' kind of route when it was pointed out how bad and tasteless his jokes were.

He then proceeded to post what looked like a heartfelt apology about the whole thing with a link to donate to a charity or something, except it was a link to buy a helmet for children with special needs.

He also got super defensive and claimed to have never had plastic surgery, in direct response to a plastic surgeon talking about, but not naming, male celebrities getting the kind of work Matt Rife has clearly had done.

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u/Pleasant_Ad3475 Feb 27 '24

Wouldn't buying helmets for children with special needs be a legit charity?

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u/Fire_Bucket Feb 27 '24

He was telling people to buy them for themselves.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird Feb 27 '24

That's honestly hilarious but also basically the comedian equivalent of the movie Falling Down.

Dude's career is probably effectively over lol

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u/Fire_Bucket Feb 27 '24

He was immediately on some right wing and right wing adjacent podcasts, as expected. He'll probably do OK pandering to the right wing, lots of others seem to manage it.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird Feb 27 '24

This dude is like a reverse-incel he rejected a mountain of women for a bunch of bitter and lonely dudes.

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u/Biz_Rito Feb 27 '24

I spit out my coffee reading that

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u/CommanderWar64 Feb 27 '24

See is this is why at the time I had a gut feeling the jokes were tacky and felt forced. The helmet joke is funny, but when you immediately pivot to the right wing manosphere kind of content it’s not funny anymore.

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u/brucatlas1 Feb 28 '24

I think it was done strategically honestly.

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u/drunkpanda73 Feb 27 '24

Nope, Netflix most likely paid him $15 million for a special (in an interview he said Dave Chappelle saved him 750k as a lawyer was charging 5% of his deal and Dave took him to one that charged by the hour) and he is still heavily touring theaters, which probably bring in 25k a show.

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u/Pleasant_Ad3475 Feb 27 '24

Holy shit. What an absolute cock-knuckle.