Get ready, Columbus… the clown prince of comedy’s audience work is going home.

Matt Rife, the central Ohio native whose TikTok videos launched him to stardom, will take his 2025 ‘Stay Golden’ tour to the biggest venues of his career to date, including a stop at Nationwide Arena on August 9 .

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Although the show has been running for almost a year, it would be wise to get tickets as soon as possible; Rife’s performance here in 2023 was such a huge success that additional shows had to be added.

Additionally, the massive increase in traffic caused the website to crash as thousands of fans vied for tickets.

Ticket presales start at 12pm on Wednesday and will run throughout the week before general sales start at 12pm on Friday at mattrifeofficial.com.

Rife grew up less than an hour north of Columbus in North Lewisburg, and also lived in New Albany and Mount Vernon. He distributed his first two comedy specials via YouTube in 2021 and 2023.

A year ago, the 29-year-old comedian released his first Netflix special, “Matt Rife: Natural Selection,” which amassed more than 10.3 million views in its first two weeks, making it the most-watched special on Netflix in the last is two weeks. half of 2023.

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Thanks to the success of that debut, Netflix presented Rife in “Lucid,” the first-ever crowdwork special, which aired on August 13. The series quickly entered the Top 10 most-watched Netflix shows in 37 countries within two weeks.

The Netflix partnership also resulted in a two-special deal for a gym/workplace comedy series that Rife will write and star in.

Next up, Rife is gearing up for his starring role in Live Nation Productions’ R-rated comedy “Rolling Loud.” The film was shot at the Rolling Loud international hip-hop festival and is scheduled for release next year.

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This article originally appeared in The Columbus Dispatch: Comedian Matt Rife to perform at Nationwide Arena on August 9