Matt has written about comedy and culture for Cracked since 2019. Previously, he spent 16 years as a contributor to The Onion. Matt is the co-author of young adult novels Deck Z: The Titanic and The Giant Smugglers.
Thirty-Three Years Ago, Marge Simpson Fought Back Against Barbara Bush ‘I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 29, 2023
The Coal-Black Comedy of John Hughes You Don’t Know Not all of his creations were as frothy as Ferris Bueller Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 28, 2023
The 50 Best Sketch Shows That Aren’t ‘Saturday Night Live’ Why wait until Saturday night when you got 50 of these beauties to choose from? Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 28, 2023
Happy 46th Anniversary of Happy Days ‘Jump the Shark’ Episode It’s the episode that epitomizes the shift from success to suckage Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 27, 2023
Big-Name Comics Tell Disturbing ‘Jokes’ About School Shootings in Sandy Hook Promise PSA ‘I am going to kill,’ jokes David Cross. ‘All of you.’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 27, 2023
Jimmy Fallon Wasn’t on NBC’s List of ‘Late Night’ Hosts But Lorne Michaels Got Him the Job Anyway The only problem with Fallon taking over for Conan? ‘NBC doesn’t really want you’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 27, 2023
Who Did ‘SNL’ Better — Travis Kelce or Taylor Swift? We imagine ‘Who is better at comedy?’ will be their first fight Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 27, 2023
5 Best ‘SNL’ Commercial Parodies About Fast Food We’ve got swine fever — and it’s contagious! Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 27, 2023
The Best Movies from Ex-‘SNL’ Writers Can late-night sketch comedy translate to the big screen? Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 26, 2023
Norm Macdonald’s Weekend Update Was Punk Rock, says ‘SNL’ Writer James Downey ‘We were going to be mean, and to an extent, anarchists’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 25, 2023
Even Greg Daniels Thinks An ‘Office’ Reboot Could Be a Mistake ‘I have a lot of questions. Number one: How dare you?’ — Kelly Kapoor Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 25, 2023
It Took A Denver Broncos Beatdown to Fulfill the Promise of This Kevin James Meme Blame the Broncos for James dominating your newsfeeds yesterday Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 25, 2023
With WGA Strike Settled, Late-Night Comedy Is Set to Return Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers could be back sooner than you think Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 25, 2023
Real-Life Larry David Beefs That Spilled into ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Scrap with Larry David? You might be famous soon! Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 25, 2023
Best and Worst Sitcom Dads, According to Reddit TV fathers know best — except when they’re absolute jerks Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 24, 2023
Leslie Jones Says ‘SNL’ Turned Her Into a Caricature of Herself It was either ‘trying to love on the white boys or beat up on the white boys, or I’m doing something loud’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 22, 2023
Pitching Taylor Swift on ‘Three Sad Virgins’ Was Like a Dream for ‘SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy The worst part about working with Taylor Swift: Random strangers yelling, ‘Sad virgin!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 22, 2023
Bill Maher and Howard Stern Deserve Each Other New Rule: Stop crying over behavior you're guilty of yourself. Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 22, 2023
5 Parodies That Were Better Than What They Were Spoofing Making fun of something and improving upon it at the same time is the ultimate double-dunk Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 21, 2023
How Chris Farley Changed Sarah Silverman’s Life Forever (And Never Even Knew It) One small moment on the ‘SNL’ stage formed Silverman’s comedy mantra Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 21, 2023
