Matt Rife was pressured to cancel a lot of his exhibits on Thursday as a result of a “final minute medical emergency”.
The slapstick comedian apologized on his Instagram story, saying that canceling his exhibits was very not like him, however it was one thing he needed to do. Rife didn’t disclose details about the medical emergency, however he did share some particulars about his busy street schedule.
“I am very sorry, however as a result of a medical emergency, I’ve to postpone our exhibits tonight (once more),” the comic shared in a press release. “I have been doing over 40 exhibits a month for a 12 months and a half and I’ve by no means needed to do something like this, I am so sorry, I hope you perceive and I really like you a lot.”
Rife was scheduled to carry out a collection of live shows in Bloomington, Indiana on the Indiana College Auditorium. The place too issued a press release citing the identical purpose and supplied a full refund.
It’s unclear whether or not Rife will proceed his tour as scheduled. He’s scheduled to carry out Thursday night time on the Chicago Theater in Chicago, Illinois, with exhibits operating by Sunday. His tour will then take him to Tennessee, the place he’ll carry out June 6-13 in Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville.
The cancellation got here six months after Rife mocking criticism following his debut Netflix particular, Pure choicewhich brought about a backlash after his jokes about home violence.
The joke in query was early in his set, during which he instructed a narrative about being in a restaurant in Baltimore and being greeted by a hostess with a black eye.
“I’ve solely been to Baltimore as soon as. I had lunch there and the hostess who kind of seated you within the restaurant had a blue eye. Utterly blue eye. And it wasn’t like, “What occurred?” It was fairly apparent what occurred,” Rife says within the particular. “We couldn’t overcome this reality. We have been like, “Is that this the face of the corporate? Who greets individuals in you?”
“My boy, who I used to be with, mentioned, ‘Sure, I really feel dangerous for her. I really feel like they need to put her within the kitchen or one thing the place nobody can see her face, you recognize?” And I mentioned, ‘Yeah, however I really feel like if she knew the way to prepare dinner, she would not have that bruise,'” Rife jokes to laughter in Washington, D.C.
Rife then downplays the joke, explaining to viewers that he was “simply testing the state of affairs to see if you are going to have enjoyable or not.”
He added: “I assume we’ll begin the present with home violence after which the remainder of the present will likely be fairly easy.”
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