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.
Furious Chris Rock Vents His Own ‘Selective Outrage’ Rock finally rages back, but are we supposed to laugh? Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 05, 2023
Pre-‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches That Showed the Genius of Kenan Thompson Even as a kid, Kenan was All That Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 05, 2023
I Loathe Lucy: Martin Short Was Terrorized By Lucille Ball on a Flight Redheaded terror at 5,000 feet Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 02, 2023
Ice-T Reveals the Off-Color Jokes He Shared with Richard Belzer The Odd Couple of crime drama bonded over comedy Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 02, 2023
Bill Maher Afraid Trump Will Strike Back at Bill Maher Maher is sleeping with one eye open. Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 02, 2023
Is Dan Harmon Creating Fox’s Next Homer Simpson? We hope it’s not a load of digital Krap Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 02, 2023
Hollywood Needs to Make Andy Kaufman’s ‘Tony Clifton Story’ It’s time for Clifton — and Kaufman — to live again Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 02, 2023
All the Times ‘Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels Was as Bad as Dr. Evil He’s worse than a frickin’ shark with a laser beam strapped to its head Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 01, 2023
Wanda Sykes Made an Audience Member Laugh So Hard He Nearly Died Sykes killed! Well, almost Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 28, 2023
Tom Brady Should Take a Page from the Shaq Roasts of the Early Aughts Roasting should be a full-contact sport Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 28, 2023
You Can Blame the Monkees for Jimmy Fallon Micky Dolenz was Fallon’s daydream believer Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 28, 2023
Kevin Hart Is Struggling to Understand All the New Memes About Him (insert Kevin Hart puzzled face here) Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 28, 2023
The Time Prince Harry Did Mushrooms at Courteney Cox’s House and Tried to Tell Her He Was a ‘Chandler’ Could he be more tripping? Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 27, 2023
Jack Black Is the Superman We Need Right Now Look, up in the sky! It’s Jack Black in spandex! Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 27, 2023
Report Says Tom Brady Is Delaying His Broadcast Career for Stand-up Comedy: Yes, You Read That Right Please, Tom, don’t take a pass Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 27, 2023
‘Saturday Night Live’s Attempt to Chide Brendan Fraser and ‘The Whale’ Is Just as Toothless as Everyone Else’s Woody Harrelson in a fat suit could have said a lot more Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 26, 2023
It’s Time to Retire ‘Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club What was once a Hall of Fame is now a Hall of Pretty Good Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 25, 2023
Who Is Peter Schickele and How Did He Win Four Comedy Grammys in the 1990s? Hint: He was also P.D.Q. Bach Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 24, 2023
5 Bears Funnier Than ‘Cocaine Bear’ Cocaine Bear still has a few trees to climb before making the Funniest Bears list Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 24, 2023
15 Trivia Tidbits About Lorne Michaels Get to know the mastermind behind ‘Saturday Night Live’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 24, 2023