On "The Chocolate Sundaes Comedy Podcast," Matt Rife revealed that he graduated high school early so that he could move to Los Angeles at age 17. While crashing on a pal's couch, he got some help from Ralphie May. "He used to take me to restaurants for lunch and he'd make me order six meals," Rife recalled on "Bertcast." "He was like, 'Eat one now, the rest you can take home with you.'"

It took just six months for Rife to get his big break; at age 19, he became the youngest cast member of the MTV sketch comedy show "Wild 'N Out." In a 2015 "This is 50" interview, Rife revealed he was eating at Domino's in Atlanta when he learned that he'd got the gig. "My life was at rock bottom," he quipped. Rife expressed his gratitude to the show's host and creator, Nick Cannon, for giving him such a monumental opportunity to further his comedy career.

Of how he got the chance to audition, Rife told "KCAL News," "I used to do a joke about [Cannon] that was god-awful when I was 15, 16 years old. But somehow, he had found that clip on YouTube." Rife appeared on "Wild 'N Out" from 2015 to 2017, and it led to other opportunities with MTV. In 2017, he competed on "The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars" and co-hosted the "TRL" revival, where he rubbed elbows with celebs including Sabrina Carpenter and Rita Ora.

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