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A review by spaceonthebookcase
Your Mom's Gonna Love Me by Matt Rife
3.0
I stumbled across my first Matt Rife video on my TikTok FYP eons ago and kept up pretty regularly with his posts until the dreaded Netflix special. To be honest, I never did finish that special and I probably never will. And not for the reason you may think, I just didn't think it was funny. Turns out, I like his quick witted crowd work more. So when Gallery Books offered up the chance to receive a review copy.
Matt Rife life is exactly what you'd expect from a poor white boy who grew up in rural Ohio. His mom wasn't great, he got beaten a lot by his stepdad, he found a mentor in his grandpa Steve and all of his hopes and dreams hinged on getting out of Ohio. It's also hard to imagine Matt Rife not looking like a basic ****boy but he does a pretty decent job describing what he looked like growing up and why it didn't help his game.
The first half or so of the book was enjoyable. It's chaotic, and quite frankly, I'd expect nothing less but it covered a lot of the Matt Rife before Nick Cannon gave him a shot on Wild-N-Out. This is the area of the memoir I felt where I got to meet Matt Rife the person, not the comedian. The back half, especially once it involved his TikTok fame, I would have liked to have heard more reflection and less events in the order they happened. I also think a more reflective approach to the Netflix special would have been better received given the criticism beyond the "I'm a human with feelings too," which quite frankly is hard to take seriously given Matt's level of privilege.
Matt Rife is still very young in a lot of ways and I think that is shown throughout this memoir. If he circles back in another thirty or forty years, that will be the memoir I'll want to read.
I did have the opportunity to read with both my eyes and ears thanks to Simon Audio. Matt Rife is the narrator and I thought he did a good job. He has a lot of sarcastic and "are ya'll serious" moments which I felt he pulled off well even just using his voice. You could also hear the emotion in his voice when he spoke about his Grandpa. I highly recommend listing to this memoir.
Thank you to Gallery Books for the gifted finished copy and Simon Audio for the gifted ALC.
Matt Rife life is exactly what you'd expect from a poor white boy who grew up in rural Ohio. His mom wasn't great, he got beaten a lot by his stepdad, he found a mentor in his grandpa Steve and all of his hopes and dreams hinged on getting out of Ohio. It's also hard to imagine Matt Rife not looking like a basic ****boy but he does a pretty decent job describing what he looked like growing up and why it didn't help his game.
The first half or so of the book was enjoyable. It's chaotic, and quite frankly, I'd expect nothing less but it covered a lot of the Matt Rife before Nick Cannon gave him a shot on Wild-N-Out. This is the area of the memoir I felt where I got to meet Matt Rife the person, not the comedian. The back half, especially once it involved his TikTok fame, I would have liked to have heard more reflection and less events in the order they happened. I also think a more reflective approach to the Netflix special would have been better received given the criticism beyond the "I'm a human with feelings too," which quite frankly is hard to take seriously given Matt's level of privilege.
Matt Rife is still very young in a lot of ways and I think that is shown throughout this memoir. If he circles back in another thirty or forty years, that will be the memoir I'll want to read.
I did have the opportunity to read with both my eyes and ears thanks to Simon Audio. Matt Rife is the narrator and I thought he did a good job. He has a lot of sarcastic and "are ya'll serious" moments which I felt he pulled off well even just using his voice. You could also hear the emotion in his voice when he spoke about his Grandpa. I highly recommend listing to this memoir.
Thank you to Gallery Books for the gifted finished copy and Simon Audio for the gifted ALC.