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.
Michael Che Is Roasting His Own Emmy Award Che couldn’t be bothered to pick up his Emmy, but thinks it’s in the mail Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 17, 2025
Charlie Sheen Told Epic Lie to Jay Leno to Get Out of ‘Tonight Show’ Appearance Fire! Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 17, 2025
How Much Does A Comedian Make for Selling Out An Arena? Short answer: More than you make in a year Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 17, 2025
How ‘The Chevy Chase Show’ Sabotaged Stand-Up Comics Guests were kepts as far from the stage as possible Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
Bill Clinton Tried to Steal Charlie Sheen’s Girlfriend ‘Find out what you can about the brunette’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
The 5 Laziest Plot Holes in ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ Comedies still need to make sense Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
The Bonkers Jim Henson Story That Frank Oz Told at His Funeral Oz got naked at ‘SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
Ricky Gervais Deleted Tweets Criticizing Political Emmy Speeches Accept your little award, thank your agent and your god and f*** off, okay? Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
Burt Ward Didn’t Get a Dime From ‘Batman’ Merch But he found a few better ways to make some cash Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 16, 2025
The Hardest Part of Working With Colin Jost and Michael Che Is Finding Them ‘Where are they?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 15, 2025
John Cleese Reveals Family Name Is Really ‘Cheese,’ Not ‘Cleese’ The original name was funnier Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 15, 2025
Here’s Who We Think Should Win This Weekend’s Comedy Emmys Will it be more Jean Smart and ‘Hacks’ or is it time for new blood? Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 12, 2025
Stanley Kubrick Wanted to Make ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ As Sex Comedy With Steve Martin Woody Allen and Bill Murray were also considered for those orgy scenes Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 12, 2025
Ego Nwodim Says ‘Goodnight’ — She's Out at ‘Saturday Night Live’ Nwodim sends an unexpected farewell Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 12, 2025
‘Roseanne’ Producer Opted for ‘Relative Peace and Quiet of Beirut’ After Tom Arnold Tried to Strangle Him ‘Roseanne’ changed producers more often than Arnold changed his underwear Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 12, 2025
Josh Gad Almost Turned Down ‘Book of Mormon’ He didn’t think his career would survive the offensive jokes Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 11, 2025
Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang Are Still Processing Heidi Gardner’s ‘SNL’ Departure ‘Shocking stuff’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 11, 2025
Michael McKean Remembers Getting Fired From ‘SNL’ Was his lousy Bill Clinton impression to blame? Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 11, 2025
Andrew Santino Says Hulu Changed His Jokes About Disney Adults ‘I’m not going to lie: They definitely changed the jokes’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 11, 2025
5 Stand-Up Comedians Who Thrived on ‘Saturday Night Live’ Many stand-ups fail at ‘SNL,’ but these five killed it Authors By Matt Solomon Published September 11, 2025
