Matt Rife Is Ready to Rock a Movie with Jamie Foxx

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Can America possibly withstand this much handsomeness in a single movie? In a recent conversation with E! News, comedian Matt Rife told Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester that there’s one A-list celebrity who unexpectedly reached out to connect. The superstar in question? “Most surprising is Jamie Foxx,” Rife revealed, “which is the coolest thing in the entire world. I’m his biggest fan. We were able to get dinner together, and it was just the coolest night of my entire life.”

How about a Matt Rife/Jamie Foxx movie, suggested Knight. “Please!” begged Rife. “Put it in motion, Hollywood, put it in motion!” Maybe a remake of the old Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines action comedy Running Scared? Just putting it out there into the universe. Manifest!

But Foxx isn’t the only comedy team-up that Rife would like to will into existence. The hosts gushed about the comics playing the Netflix Is A Joke festival alongside Rife, including Ali Wong, Trevor Noah and Kevin Hart. Which comic’s set would Rife most want to catch? “I would love to see Seth Rogen smoke the (Hollywood) Bowl,” he said. “That’s the show I would kill to see. I think he’s absolutely amazing. I would love to work with him someday.”

Rife riffed about his current ProbleMATTic tour, telling the hosts that his new round of shows is entirely different from his recent Netflix special, Natural Selection. Given all the negative publicity around some of that show’s probleMATTic jokes, that’s likely a good thing. He also pushed back on the idea that he’s moving away from crowd work (despite the implication in Natural Selection that he was doing just that). “I told people to have common sense,” Rife said, correcting the hosts on their faulty assumptions. “I hope to keep doing the same amount of crowd work I’ve always been doing. Crowd work clips are just something that’s unique to that circumstance. It’s not going to be duplicated, and it just makes the show more personable.”

Personable? Did Rife mean “make the show more personal?” Maybe it works either way.

E! News concluded the interview by asking Rife about one more showbiz team-up. “We heard a rumor that you were supposed to be on an episode of Vanderpump Rules,”  gossiped Sylvester. “Is there any truth to that?”

“Did it come from me?” Rife clapped back. “Then probably not. I read the craziest stuff about me all day long, and none of it’s true. Cracks me up. But hey, whatever gives people the clout they need.”