Matt Rife responds to sexist domestic violence joke criticism with mock apology

Stand-up comedian Matt Rifes sarcastic response to critics calling him out for making a domestic violence joke has been branded disrespectful and offensive.

Rife, whose viral crowd work interaction videos have earned him a massive social media following, recently scored his first Netflix comedy special after self-releasing his material on YouTube.

However, his streaming debut became embroiled in controversy after the 28-year-old comedian opened the special, titled Natural Selection, with a joke about domestic abuse.

The Ohio-native begins his hour-long set, which was filmed in Washington DC, with an anecdote set at a restaurant in ratchet Baltimore where the hostess who seats you had a black eye.

"A full black eye. It wasn't like, 'What happened?' It was pretty obvious what happened, he continued. But we couldn't get over, like, this is the face of the company? This is who you have greeting people?

"And my boy, who I was with, was like, 'Yeah, I feel bad for her, man, I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face, Rife carried on. And I was like, 'Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn't have that black eye.

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