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.
Kathy Griffin: Male Comics Are ‘Pigs’ and ‘I’ve Seen All Their Penises’ Why are male comics pigs? Griffin says just look at Pete Davidson Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 14, 2023
Six Hit Comedians Who Flamed Out Faster Than You Can Say Andrew Dice Clay Comics like Michael Richards and Carlos Mencia offer lessons in self-destruction Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 13, 2023
Adam DeVine Says Superhero Movies Killed Comedies When your movie isn’t working, blame Marvel Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 13, 2023
Steve Martin and This Year’s Other Top Comedy Emmy Snubs Television Academy, you’re really going to rob Selena Gomez and Sarah Goldberg AGAIN? Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 12, 2023
Maria Bamford’s ‘Crowd Pleaser’ Is This Year’s Smartest, Funniest Comedy Album The ‘not-so-great’ veteran of 12-step groups reveals her comedy secrets Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 12, 2023
Rob McElhenney Reveals Diagnosis of ‘Host of Neurodevelopmental Disorders’ For others with similar issues, McElhenney ‘wanted to remind you that you’re not alone’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 12, 2023
Zach Galifianakis Loved to Be Ridiculed by Don Rickles, ‘The Guy Who Invented It’ ‘You got off a good one,’ Rickles admitted to Galifianakis. ‘And it’s pissing me off’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 10, 2023
Johnny Knoxville Was Offered ‘Saturday Night Live’ But Chose ‘Jackass’ Instead Under the scrutiny of a lie detector, Knoxville comes clean about ‘SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 10, 2023
Sarah Silverman Sues ChatGPT and Meta for Joke Thievery When it comes to borrowing material, Carlos Mencia has nothing on AI. Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 10, 2023
Jonah Hill Seems As Inept at Relationships As His ‘Superbad’ Character Attention all surfers who date Jonah Hill: No swimsuit pictures allowed Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 10, 2023
‘Saturday Night Live’s Long, Complicated History With O.J. Simpson Either as the joker or the butt of jokes, Simpson has been part of ‘SNL’ during every decade of its existence Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 09, 2023
We Deserve More ‘Home Alone’ As Action Anime Kevin McCallister should have had flame throwers all along Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 08, 2023
Jay Leno Defied Military Orders and Roasted Ronald Reagan ‘You do not denigrate him. You do not make fun of him. He is the President of the United States’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 07, 2023
Matt Rife Had Beef with High-School Andy Samberg on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ The most popular bully in high school is the role Rife was born to play Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 07, 2023
Kevin Hart Is Just The Right Height, Thank You Very Much If the 5-foot-2 comic was 6-foot-6, he’d still have to deal with short-ass arms Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 07, 2023
Dave Thomas and Son Try to Recreate ‘Schitt’s Creek’ SCTV-to-Sitcom Magic Can another Canadian father/son comedy duo hit it big? Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 06, 2023
25 of the Best Comic’s Comics, According to Patton Oswalt and Other Beloved Comic’s Comics Oswalt, Rachel Feinstein, Andy Kindler and Jackie Kashian help us identify the comics who comics love the most Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 06, 2023
John Woo Says ‘Face/Off’ Was Intended As A Comedy Woo says the Nic Cage-John Travolta film was a ‘Mad Magazine’ goof come to life Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 05, 2023
Melanie Hutsell’s Jan Brady Character Got Her Cast on ‘Saturday Night Live’ She went from theater to ‘SNL' faster than you can say, ‘Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 05, 2023
Tom Segura’s ‘Sledgehammer’ Pointlessly Crosses a Really Disturbing Line If you think comics can’t offend any more, Segura has some jokes for you Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 05, 2023
