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New York Tour Stop · 2026Live Ticketmaster · Updated Jul 31, 2026
Matt Rife New York Concert — Nov 21, 2026 at UBS Arena
Matt Rife plays New York on Sat, November 21, 2026 at UBS Arena — tickets from $72 USD. Full New York concert details, seat pricing, venue info, and transit tips below.
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Matt Rife New York Concert Details
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Matt Rife is confirmed to perform in New York on Sat, November 21, 2026 at UBS Arena. This is Matt Rife's only currently scheduled New York date on the 2026 tour, so seats tend to move quickly — especially floor and lower-bowl sections. Live Ticketmaster availability is shown above and refreshes daily.
Matt Rife New York Ticket Prices
Live pricing from Ticketmaster for the Matt Rife New York show. Resale prices on secondary markets may be higher.
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$72
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About the Venue — UBS Arena
The Matt Rife New York show takes place at UBS Arena (2400 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont). Plan to arrive 45 to 60 minutes before doors — lines and bag checks can stretch for big tour stops like this. Rideshare is typically the easiest way to arrive and leave on a show night. For paid parking, venue lots and nearby garages tend to fill 60 to 90 minutes before showtime.
Matt Rife in New York — FAQ
Is Matt Rife coming to New York in 2026?▼
Yes — Matt Rife is confirmed to play New York on Sat, November 21, 2026 at UBS Arena. Tickets are available through the official Ticketmaster listing above.
How much are Matt Rife tickets in New York?▼
Matt Rife tickets in New York start at $72 USD and go up to $72 for floor and VIP seating. Mid-tier seats typically sit around $72.
What venue will Matt Rife play in New York?▼
Matt Rife is scheduled to perform at UBS Arena (2400 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont) in New York.
What time does the Matt Rife New York show start?▼
The Matt Rife New York concert starts at 20:00 on Nov 21, 2026. Doors typically open 60 to 90 minutes before show time.
How do I get to the New York venue?▼
Most major New York concert venues are accessible via public transit, rideshare (Uber and Lyft), and paid parking onsite or nearby. Rideshare is often the easiest option on a show night — see the transit suggestions below.
About Matt Rife
Matthew Steven Rife was born September 10, 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in North Lewisburg and the surrounding small-town belt north of the city — a detail that anchors a meaningful share of his early stand-up material about growing up working-class in central Ohio, his mother and grandfather (both load-bearing figures in the act), and the kind of audience the Midwest comedy circuit trains a young comic to play to. He started open-mic stand-up at fifteen at the Funny Bone in Columbus, dropped out of high school to chase the act, and moved to Los Angeles in his late teens to grind the Hollywood Improv and Comedy Store circuit. The first national credit came in his early twenties as a cast member on MTV2's Wild 'N Out under Nick Cannon, followed by a recurring run on MTV's Ridiculousness as a Wild Ridiculousness alumni-circle panelist. The early TV work paid the rent without ever defining the act — those years on cable left him known by name to a Comedy Central / Viacom audience that had no particular reason to follow him to a theater date. Between 2017 and 2022 he self-released a string of small specials on YouTube — Only Fans, Matthew Steven Rife — and toured constantly through clubs the rest of the industry barely tracked. The break came on TikTok in late 2022 and through 2023: short, savage front-row crowd-work clips, cut tight, soundtracked to nothing, posted to a feed that suddenly turned every Wednesday-night club set into viral content. The audience that arrived was younger, female-skewed, and digitally native in a way the comedy industry had not seen before — and the rooms followed within months, from clubs to theaters to arenas in less than a calendar year. Netflix released Natural Selection in November 2023 as a stand-alone $4.99 special, the streamer's first individually priced comedy hour, and the special's opening bit — a deliberately provocative joke about domestic violence — became the center of a heavy public backlash that Rife responded to in-character and in-act rather than retract. The arc since has been arena-comedy class: the ProbleMATTic World Tour into NBA-arena rooms across North America, the UK, Australia, and Europe; the Lucid Saturation follow-up cycle keeping the schedule full; and the working consensus inside the industry that, controversy or not, the touring number is the touring number. The voice on stage is edgy, observational, dating-and-relationship heavy, anchored by long crowd-work runs that work the front three rows as the source material for half the show.