Matt Rife, the American stand-up whose crowd-work clips made him a Netflix headliner, played the first of two Stay Golden nights at The O2 arena.
Matt Rife, the American comedian known for his Netflix special Natural Selection, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Saturday 11 April 2026. It was the first of two London nights on his Stay Golden World Tour.
Rife was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1995 and began doing stand-up as a teenager. He became known on television as a cast member of the MTV improv show Wild ’N Out.
His wider fame came from short clips of crowd work, his conversations with people in the front rows, which spread on TikTok. Natural Selection followed on Netflix in 2023.
That year he announced his ProbleMATTic World Tour and sold more than 600,000 tickets across over 250 shows within 48 hours. Stay Golden built on that run with more than 40 added dates.
The O2 announced the London shows together, on 11 and 23 April. In December 2025 Netflix released his Christmas special Unwrapped, recorded in Phoenix, Arizona.