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.
Brazilian Comic Sentenced to Eight Years for Offensive Jokes Watch your back, Tony Hinchcliffe Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 06, 2025
This ‘Simpsons’ Actor Almost Starred in ‘Leave It to Beaver’ His teeth would have made him a perfect Beaver Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 06, 2025
13 of the Funniest Late-Night Jokes About the Elon Musk/Donald Trump Feud A Musk/Trump feud is like Christmas for the comedians of late night Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 06, 2025
5 Comedians Who’ve Played God Why should Alanis Morissette have all the fun? Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 05, 2025
Here’s Why You’ve Never Seen the Original Open of ‘I Love Lucy’ Animated Lucy and Desi were more fun than velvety hearts Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 05, 2025
Trans Comics Reclaim ‘SNL’ Character Pat in New Documentary Julia Sweeney’s ‘SNL’ and movie character gets a reexamination Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 05, 2025
Aimee Lou Wood on ‘SNL’ White POTUS Sketch: ‘I Know for A Fact A Man Wrote That’ And she didn’t tell Walton Goggins not to host ‘SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 05, 2025
Dave Chappelle Says Lorne Michaels Makes An Exception for This Huge ‘SNL’ Rule When He Hosts Chappelle gets a pass for this crucial part of the show Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 04, 2025
The Most Offensive ‘SNL’ Sketch You’ve Never Seen This Harry Shearer sketch from 1980 wouldn’t fly today Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 04, 2025
When Marc Maron Interviewed Norm Macdonald, ‘All of My Assumptions About Him Were Wrong’ ‘This whole other person that I couldn’t have ever imagined was inside of there’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 04, 2025
10 Most-Watched YouTube Sketches From ‘SNL’ Season 50 Political sketches dominated another election year Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 04, 2025
Conan O’Brien Almost Pulled Prank on David Letterman That Could Have Gotten Him Fired Robert Smigel insisted that Conan try an Andy Kaufman-esque bit Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 03, 2025
The ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ Episode That Inspired Robin Williams’ ‘Mork & Mindy’ It required 1,000 pounds of walnuts Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 03, 2025
Johnny Carson Regretted His Failures As A Father ‘That sense of failure overcomes you’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 03, 2025
Nick Offerman Reminds Fans That Ron Swanson Was A Gay Ally ‘All these people want to do is to love each other’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 03, 2025
Nikki Glaser’s Boyfriend’s One Simple Rule for Being Butt of Her Jokes The couple has disagreed about venting disguised as comedy Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2025
Milton Berle Delivered Brutal Roast of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Nasty punchlines proved prophetic Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2025
Chris Parnell Names His Least Favorite 'SNL' Host ‘Lorne thought he was the next Andy Kaufman or something’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2025
Ricky Gervais Says He Defeated Cancel Culture: ‘We Won’ Gervais once again declares victory over imaginary enemies Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 02, 2025
Jack Nicholson Played Two Different Characters on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ Didn’t Andy Griffith think we’d notice? Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2025
