Matt Rife’s Fans Send Him Some Seriously Weird Gifts

The Hawk Tuah girl isn’t comedian Matt Rife’s only superfan. On Tom Segura’s Your Mom’s House podcast, Rife spilled the beans on freaky fans trying to give him gifts no one would want to find under their holiday tree.

For example? One woman — “she’s older, probably like 40s” — has attended a few of his comedy shows, declaring that she and Rife are destined to be together. “She brought this big bag full of gifts, which is not uncommon,” Rife explained. “We get a bunch of gifts after shows, and I love opening them. Sometimes there's cool shit in there.”

Not this time. The fan’s phone was in the bag and set to video-record, “hoping to catch whatever I’m saying or doing backstage.” How she intended to get the phone back was a mystery to Rife. The comic’s security team went through the phone for signs of an actual threat, but what it found was even worse: Rife’s head clumsily photoshopped onto the bodies of shirtless models. “I was so fucking appalled that she didn’t use my body,” complained Rife. “I didn’t want to fuck her, but I didn’t want her to think she could do better.”

Other weird gifts that find their way back to the comedy green room? “I’ve gotten hair,” Rife revealed. “I’ve gotten toenails. No letter to go with them. Just in a bag.”

Another girl gave Rife her family photo album full of “photos of them in what looked like the ‘80s,” he said. “I imagine it’s her as a kid, just family gatherings.”

“That’s sad,” replied Segura, “parting with photos that she probably won’t be able to find again.” 

“That’s a really interesting thing to think about,” Rife pondered. “Does she ever plan on getting those back? No.” 

Or maybe, Segura suggested, the fantasy is yes. Maybe Rife would look through the family pictures and decide, “I want to be a part of this.”

Rife gave an even sadder account about Matt Rife spam accounts, with scammers posing as the comic to swindle gullible fans. “So many people will come to shows and be like, ‘Matt told me to come here. I sent him $1,000 last week.’”

One such fan showed up and a curious Rife stood on the other side of a stage door to hear the interaction with security. “A lady was like, ‘I’ve been texting with Matt for weeks. We exchanged sexy photos together. He sent me his dick.” To prove her story’s veracity, she showed her phone to security: “Look, he’s texting me right now!” 

Meanwhile, Rife was on the other side of the door without a phone in his hands. 

Rife feels sorry for fans who fall for those scams, but he wishes they’d take a little accountability. “I’ve put out so many messages” on social media, he explained, stating that he’ll never message fans from a private account — for their security and his. “I’m never going to ask for money.”

“But if you do get a picture of (Rife’s) dick,” joked Segura, “that is your backstage pass.”