Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “This is going terribly,” Matt Rife announces at his ProbleMATTic show at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater. "This" is a repartee with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has a crowd work problem, and I don’t see it letting up any time soon. Crowd work used to be one of many tools of ...

We owe our understanding of human behavior thanks, in part, to Bob. He spends hours some days as a subject in academic psychology studies, filling out surveys on crowd-work platforms like Amazon’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the High Plains Comedy Festival returns for its 10th edition, Denver audiences can catch dozens of stand-up sets from 100 local and national comics, ...

Comedy fans must have been on the bad list this year, because Netflix just delivered them a steaming lump of coal for the holiday season. Comedian Matt Rife, who coughed up a crowd work special for ...

TikTok has a mixed record when it comes to comedy. The app helped launch the beloved Brian Jordan Alveraz—but also the controversial Matt Rife. Meanwhile, it has given rise to the 20-something ...

Comedian Matt Rife is returning to Netflix with his second special for the streamer this week, this time focused entirely on crowd work. Who knows what “Lucid” will be? Well, you might have an idea if ...

Netflix has released the trailer for Matt Rife's new comedy special. In Netflix's first-ever crowd work special, Matt gets up close and personal with his audience for a full hour of crowd work. Filmed ...

Comedian Jessica Kirson can look at an audience, pick people out and spin it into material right on the spot. Comics call it "crowd work," but for Kirson it’s second nature. Nassau County resident ...