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.
Mike Birbiglia Is Committed to Showing Us How the Comedy Sausage Is Made On his current stand-up tour, Birbiglia reveals the secrets behind comedy magic Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2023
Patton Oswalt Has Three Words for Grads: You Poor Bastards Oswalt offers positivity, despite grads ‘about to enter a hellscape where you will have to fight for every scrap of your humanity and dignity’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2023
‘The State’ and 7 Other ’90s Sketch Comedy Shows You Forgot You Loved The 1990s were the golden age of sketch comedy, with seemingly every improv or sketch troupe in the country getting a shot at the spotlight Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 01, 2023
15th-Century Monty Python-Esque Comedy Scripts Discovered, Complete with Jousting Bears and Party Pigs Medieval comics were doing Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit bit in the 1480s Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 31, 2023
Mark Hamill Thinks Lorne Michaels Is Holding An 'SNL' Grudge Is the evil emporer of the SNL empire mad about Luke Skywalker's turn to the 'Fridays' side? Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 31, 2023
‘Babylon Bee’ Becomes Social Media Hornet’s Nest When conservatives cancel conservatives, all hell breaks loose Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 31, 2023
Ernie Kovacs Was the Secret Father of Counterculture Comedy Meet the guy who inspired ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Monty Python, the ‘National Lampoon’ and Dave Letterman Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2023
The New Season of 'I Think You Should Leave' Has More Comedic Fury Than Ever — But That Might Not Be A Good Thing An angry Tim Robinson is a funny Tim Robinson. But he also runs the risk of becoming pretty one-note Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2023
Late-Night Guests Who Owned Their Hosts Lindsay Lohan informed Letterman, ‘This is my show now’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 27, 2023
‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Easter Egg Pays Tribute to Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s Friendship ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s main love story pays tribute to a classic comedy friendship Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 26, 2023
What Was Steve Martin Doing in Front of Joe Rogan’s Comedy Club? Welcome to Unsolved Twitter Mysteries Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 26, 2023
Howie Mandel Is Ready for A.I. to Write His Jokes Could Bing be Mandel’s new writer? ‘Well, that would be an honor’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 26, 2023
Tom Hanks Plays Bill Murray in New Wes Anderson Film Hanks’ role in ‘Asteroid City’ is positively Murrayish Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 26, 2023
‘New York Times’ Confirms: Racial Slurs Still Not Okay, Even When Repeating Jokes When Michael Scott pulled this, they had to hold a Diversity Day Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 24, 2023
Justin Theroux Stole a Mel Brooks Joke for ‘Tropic Thunder’ Dana Carvey insists that Theroux was only influenced. Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 24, 2023
Max Has Crossed the Line By Cutting ‘Space Ghost: Coast to Coast’ Among a multitude of sins, axing ‘Space Ghost’ is the most grievous Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 24, 2023
What ‘Great American Joke Off’ Taught Dulcé Sloan About Hosting ‘The Daily Show’ ‘This was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 24, 2023
Every Season, Henry Winkler Asked If Bill Hader Was Going to Kill Him ‘So many people have died on Barry that you never know who’s expendable’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 24, 2023
Niles or Frasier? Reddit Decides Who It Wants for a Therapist The verdict is in, and ‘there will be no blaming mommy today’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 22, 2023
Football Legend Jim Brown Was Immortalized in Richard Pryor’s Greatest Comedy Concert Brown was the only one with the guts to ask Pryor, ‘What you gonna do?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 22, 2023
