Hugely popular comedian Matt Rife set a new record for the largest crowd to see a comedy show at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 29, when 20,529 attended his Philadelphia stop on the 2025 Stay Golden Tour. 

 

Rife broke the previous record of 20,278 set by Shane Gillis at Xfinity Mobile Arena on October 18, 2024, which beat Sebastian Maniscalco’s 19,511 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in September of 2024.

 

Rife The Stay Golden Tour follows Matt’s wildly successful ProbleMATTic World Tour, which saw the comedian sell over 600,000 tickets across 250+ shows in less than 48 hours following the announcement in June 2023. The multi-year tour included shows across North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia.

 

In 2021, Rife self-produced his first one-hour comedy special, "Only Fans," which he distributed through YouTube and in April 2023, he released his second special, "Matthew Steven Rife," also on YouTube. On November 15, 2023, he released his first Netflix special, "Matt Rife: Natural Selection," which achieved over 10.3 million views in its first two weeks, becoming the most viewed special on the streaming platform in the latter half of 2023. Rife's incredible success opened the door to a lucrative two-special deal with Netflix, which included a development deal for a groundbreaking gym/workplace comedy series that he will both write and star in. The partnership also featured Netflix's first-ever crowd work special, "Lucid," which premiered on August 13, 2024, quickly entering the top 10 most-watched shows in 37 countries on the platform for two weeks.

 

Rife is set to take on a leading role in Rolling Loud, an R-rated comedy co-produced by Live Nation Productions, which will be filmed at the renowned hip-hop festival of the same name this winter. The film is written and directed by Jeremy Garelick (Murder Mystery 2) through his company, American High. The UTA Independent Film Group is handling worldwide rights for the project, which is scheduled for release next year.

 

Comedian/Actor/Producer/Writer/and NY Times Best Selling Author Matt Rife has cemented himself as one of the biggest stand ups in the world through his chart-topping Netflix specials and his remarkable engagement on social media where he has amassed over 42.6 million followers, and more than 3 billion views globally.  

 

Rife continues to break arena attendance records on his biggest tour to-date, Matt Rife: Stay Golden Tour, where he recently sold out two shows at the famed Madison Square Garden in NYC and became the youngest comedian to do so.

 

On his previous ProbleMATTic World Tour, Rife became the youngest stand-up comedian to sell out the Hollywood Bowl with over 17,000 tickets sold. The ProbleMATTic tour sold over 600,000 tickets in under 48 hours, becoming one of the largest comedy tours in over 20 years.

 

As a result of his overall success, Rife earned placement on the Forbes list for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023 and top creators lists in 2024 and 2025.

 

Rife has multiple film and television projects currently in production including Rolling Loud opposite Owen Wilson, The Escort from Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin, The Altruist opposite Julia Garner and The Chasm which he is co-writing and producing.

 

Rife’s next special for Netflix premieres globally on December 2nd, 2025.  Matt Rife: Unwrapped — A Christmas Crowd Work Special, “explores gifts, traditions and who’s made it on the naughty or nice list this year. Directed by Erik Griffin, the special was taped in Phoenix, Arizona. Rife also executive produced along with Christina Shams. His company, Carpe Noctem, produced the special along with Avesta Entertainment and Above Average.