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.
Sam Kinison’s Night With Marc Maron Was Coke-Fueled Insanity ‘You ever burned money, Maron?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 26, 2025
The Scandalous Song Robin Williams Wasn’t Allowed to Sing at the Oscars Network censors didn’t want to hear about Bugs Bunny being a sexaholic Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 26, 2025
‘SNL’ Is Screen-Testing New ‘Weekend Update’ Anchors Does that explain Colin Jost’s new golf-host gig? Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 26, 2025
Man Fired Over ‘Seinfeld’ Joke Won, Then Lost $26.6 Million The trouble began with a woman whose name rhymes with a female body part Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 25, 2025
Adam Sandler Scrapped Original Song for ‘SNL50’ With less than a week to go, Sandler started from scratch Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 25, 2025
Matt Rife Sticks Up for Sydney Sweeney Against Internet’s ‘Absolute Garbage Losers’ The white knight of comedy is here to defend the fair princess Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 25, 2025
Michael Che Can’t Stop Teasing His ‘SNL’ Departure Here he goes again Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 25, 2025
Studio Execs Wanted Ron Howard to Make ‘Splash’ Without the Mermaid We love your ‘Ghostbusters’ idea, but do we really need the ghosts? Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 25, 2025
‘Golden Girls’ Writer Got Death Threats for This Controversial Episode Time for an unlisted phone number Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 22, 2025
Jay Leno Sold Out Other ‘Tonight Show’ Guest Hosts Over Pay Why go ‘all for one’ when you can go ‘all for me’? Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 22, 2025
Lorne Michaels Confirms: ‘SNL’ Shakeup Coming in About A Week Get your comedy scorecards ready Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 22, 2025
The Comedy You’ll Love Based on Your Zodiac Sign, According to Netflix Laughs are in the stars Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 21, 2025
Did Howard Stern’s Staff Make Up Cancellation Rumors for Publicity? All the contract talk might be a PR stunt Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 21, 2025
Unauthorized A.I. Jon Stewart Bashes Trump, Representing Scary Future of Comedy A disturbing deepfake shows us where political satire is heading Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 21, 2025
‘SNL’ Cold Opens Need to Take Lessons From ‘South Park’ ‘SNL’ satire looks scared compared to ‘South Park’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 21, 2025
All the Ways ‘South Park’ Roasted Rob Schneider ‘Family Guy’ got him even worse Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 20, 2025
Is There Anything Left to Say About the Early Days of ‘SNL’? Books, movies, documentaries and podcasts make a new play sound redundant Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 20, 2025
Johnny Carson Wanted to Get Rid of the Emmys Carson had a whole new take of TV awards Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 20, 2025
RIP Frisbee: Here’s Why Andy Samberg Hated Seth Meyers’ Dog ‘Freaking little skeleton rat!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 20, 2025
Tim Allen Resorts to ‘Home Improvement’ Stunt-Casting for Season 2 of ‘Shifting Gears’ It’s a card Allen has played before Authors By Matt Solomon Published August 19, 2025
