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.
Three Reasons Why the Tom Brady Roast Is the Most Important Comedy of 2024 The man who saved the comedy roast is Leonardo DiCaprio‘s ex-girlfriend’s ex-husband Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 23, 2024
Sebastian Maniscalco’s Kid Sees Dad’s Stand-Up for First Time, Falls Asleep Tough crowd Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 23, 2024
CBS Didn’t Offer Tim Allen A Billion Dollars for ‘Non-Woke Sitcom’ In other news: Tim Allen isn’t actually Santa Claus Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 23, 2024
Chris Redd Brings the Laughs to A ‘Resurrected’ Classic Redd roasts your crappy car on ‘Resurrected Rides’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 23, 2024
5 Out-of-the-Box Celebrities Who Should Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ Forget former cast members and hot stand-ups. It’s time for ‘SNL’ to get weird Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 23, 2024
Robin Williams Was Unnerved By Eddie Murphy’s Success ‘You simply slip down the comedy food chain’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 22, 2024
Bill Maher Says He’s a So-So Actor But Jerry Seinfeld ‘Was Even Worse Than Me’ Maher is also more emotionally available than Garry Shandling Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 22, 2024
Reggie Watts Loves Weird Al, But Chevy Chase? Not So Much Watts’ new special, ‘NEVER MIND,’ premieres on Saturday Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 19, 2024
‘Weird Al’ Crams 10 Years of Pop Hits into a New Polka Everyone said yes to ‘Weird Al’ — except for one pop superstar Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 19, 2024
‘The Simpsons’ Shut Down Production So Writers Could Watch Bob Newhart Record Krusty Tribute Newhart delivered a stirring tribute to a clown he never knew Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 19, 2024
Donald Glover Says ‘SNL’ and ‘30 Rock’ Were Ruled By Fear A Tina Fey writers’ room can be a very scary place Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 19, 2024
Bye Bob: Saying Farewell to Comedy Legend Bob Newhart One of America’s great stand-ups passed away at age 94 Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 18, 2024
‘Gilligan’s Island’ Producer Had Bonkers Idea for Continuing the Series You had us at ‘the Harlem Globetrotters pay a visit’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 18, 2024
Matt Rife Already Blaming the Audience in the Trailer for His New Netflix Special If the new special sucks, Rife knows where we should point the finger Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 18, 2024
6 Sitcoms That Started Great, Only to Fall Completely Off a Cliff These shows define ‘Quit while you’re ahead’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 18, 2024
Making An Adam Sandler Movie Is Just As Haphazard As You’d Think A phone call from Sandler might mean a job for life Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 17, 2024
These Are the Comedies That Deserved An Emmy Nomination Instead of ‘The Bear’ Say it with me: ‘The Bear’ isn’t a comedy! Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 17, 2024
‘Ridiculousness’ Somehow Dropped Nine Seasons in 2023 Alone Inside the very bonkers way MTV classifies a season Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 17, 2024
Jon Stewart and ‘The Daily Show’ Had ‘Terrible F***ing Week’ To be fair, so did America Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 17, 2024
The 8 Most Obscure ‘SNL’ Cast Members Live from New York, it’s... who now? Authors By Matt Solomon Published July 16, 2024
