The opening joke of Matt Rife’s Netflix special, Natural Selection, is set at a restaurant in Baltimore, a city Rife describes as “ratchet.”
He says, “I’ve only been to Baltimore one time. I ate lunch there, and the hostess, who seats you at the restaurant, had a black eye. It was pretty obvious what happened. We couldn’t get over the fact, ‘This is the face of the company.’ Like, ‘This is… This is who you have greeting people?’ And my boy, who I was with was like, ‘Yeah, I feel bad for her. I feel like they should, you know, put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face, you know.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.'”
“Testing the water, seeing if y’all are gonna be fun or not. Just wanted to see.”