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.
Ricky Gervais Says He Only Pretends to Be A ‘Loose Cannon’ ‘I’m never that brutal. It just seems like it’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2025
Eve Plumb Ditched Her ‘Brady Bunch’ Image By Playing Teen Sex Worker ‘The startling NBC-TV drama that shocked the nation’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2025
Eddie Murphy’s Takeaway From ‘SNL50’: ‘Everybody Was Real Old’ 64-year-old Murphy was a youngster compared to some ‘SNL’ alumni Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 30, 2025
Jenna Fischer Believes That ‘The Office’ Seasons Without Steve Carell Were Okay After All Even ‘The Office’ actors were convinced they’d lost their mojo Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 29, 2025
7 Excruciating Details About Jerry Lewis’ Greatest Disaster: ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ We might be closer than ever to cringing through the film Lewis hoped would never see the light of day Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 29, 2025
John Cusack Originally Blasted Ska Music in ‘Say Anything’ Boombox Scene Lloyd Dobler courted Diane Court with ‘Bonin’ in the Boneyard’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 29, 2025
Mel Brooks Explains Why You Can’t Buy ‘Spaceballs’ Action Figures Or Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal, for that matter Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 29, 2025
Jan Had the Juiciest Storylines on ‘The Brady Bunch,’ According to the Show’s Brothers Jan = tween angst Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 28, 2025
Bill Murray Hated ‘Seinfeld’ He only watched one episode, yada yada yada Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 28, 2025
TV Executives Worried ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Might Be Too Highbrow Dumb sitcoms can have erudite origins Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 28, 2025
Real Muppets Would Say ‘Screw Disney,’ According to Frank Oz ‘Their job is to be rebellious’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 28, 2025
Mike Birbiglia’s Dad Gave Him World’s Briefest Sex Talk It’s easy to confuse puberty for cancer Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 27, 2025
Mike Birbiglia’s ‘Good Life’ Special Isn’t Afraid of the Big Emotions Birbigs tackles dangerous birthday parties, comedy-loving Pope Francis and life’s eternal mysteries Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 27, 2025
The Movie Flop That Led to ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ There’s no sitcom if Griffith’s movie career didn’t tank Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 25, 2025
Dick Van Dyke Had to Fight for His Sitcom’s Edgiest Episode ‘We fought the network tooth and nail’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 23, 2025
Cousin Oliver Didn’t Intend to Make ‘The Brady Bunch’ Jump the Shark: ‘I Was 9’ ‘They felt like I was some kind of interloper’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 23, 2025
Dolly Parton Reveals Only Way She’ll Be Part of Jenifer Aniston’s ‘9 to 5’ Remake No, it’s not her late husband’s dream of a threesome with her and Aniston Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 23, 2025
This Is the ‘Most Embarrassing’ Detail About Jimmy Fallon’s Disaster Date With Nicole Kidman Fallon blew his big chance without even knowing it Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 23, 2025
‘Fox & Friends’ Tried to Book the Late Kirstie Alley to Talk About George Wendt ‘She passed away three years ago, just like most of the viewers at Fox News’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 22, 2025
The ‘SNL’ Cast Member in the Most Sketches This Season Will Surprise You Take three guesses and bet you don’t get it Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 22, 2025
