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.
Songwriter Gets A Million Bucks A Year for ‘Ridiculousness’ Theme Song The profits are even more ridiculous than the crotch-crunching clips Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 21, 2025
‘SNL’s Tracy Morgan Felt ‘Culturally Isolated’ on ‘Whitest Show in America’ ‘I’m coming from a world of Black’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 21, 2025
Dave Chappelle and Bowen Yang Hug It Out After Earlier Standoff Can we stop pretending Chappelle and Yang have beef? Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 20, 2025
5 Times Sitcom Characters Were Total Badasses Let’s get ready to rumble Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 20, 2025
Weekend Update Went Completely Off the Rails Last Night And that’s a good thing Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 19, 2025
Dave Chappelle Evacuates L.A. Fires in Goriest ‘SNL’ Sketch Ever Get ready for the bloodbath Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 19, 2025
5 Sitcom Stars Who Went on to Win Oscars Who’s laughing now? Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 19, 2025
Dave Chappelle Says He’s Tired of Controversy Before Stirring Up More of It During His ‘SNL’ Monologue Oops, he did it again Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 19, 2025
Joe Piscopo Wonders If He Could Still Do ‘Ebony and Ivory’ ‘SNL’ Sketch With Eddie Murphy ‘We took the gloves off’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2025
David Lynch Almost Made a Body-Swap Comedy With Steve Martin and Martin Short ‘All kind of wacko hell breaks loose’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2025
30 Comedians Currently on Tour, Ranked By How Much Their Tickets Will Cost You Which comics deliver the most bang for your bucks? Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2025
Tina Fey Says ‘SNL’ Writers Need to Be Meaner to Each Other Again Forget teamwork — Fey says ‘SNL’ is built on competition Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 16, 2025
Sally Struthers Says ‘Passive-Aggressive’ Betty White Was A Bully ‘I didn’t have such a great experience with her’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 16, 2025
Bob Uecker Built His Comedy Career Out of Baseball Mediocrity Rest in peace, Mr. Baseball Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 16, 2025
Dana Carvey Thinks He’s Got Chevy Chase All Figured Out Psychologist Carvey has solved the Chase problem Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 15, 2025
Lorne Michaels Gave Bill Hader the All-Time Worst Advice on How to Deal with His Panic Attacks Michaels must have missed HR’s Sensitivity Day Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 15, 2025
Is Ari Shaffir A Big Troll or ‘America’s Sweetheart’? Spoiler alert: He’s both Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 15, 2025
Of Course Jay Leno Drove a Vintage Fire Truck to Deliver Help to L.A. Wildfire Victims In case of emergency, call in the 1941 American LaFrance fire truck Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 15, 2025
5 Actors Who Auditioned For (And Didn’t Get) Famous Sitcom Roles Kramer as Al Bundy? It could have happened! Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 15, 2025
Seth Meyers Took World's Longest Elevator Ride With Robert De Niro It’s a long way to the 17th floor Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 14, 2025
