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.
John Goodman Says His Biggest Careeer Risk Was Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Based on his SNL audition, he was right to be scared Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 14, 2024
Jon Stewart v. Apple: ‘Our Aims Do Not Align’ Apple went shopping at the Jon Stewart Store but was surprised to buy a Jon Stewart Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 13, 2024
Ray Romano Says This Is the Worst Place to Do Stand-Up No, Bill Maher, it’s not on a college campus Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 13, 2024
Daniel Radcliffe’s Education Is Mainly Based on ‘The Simpsons’ ‘Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, and I know that because of ‘The Simpsons‘‘ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 13, 2024
This Performer Claims to Be the Most Nervous Guest Host in ‘SNL’ History He’s got the flop sweat and fistfuls of hair to prove it Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 13, 2024
Kristen Wiig’s Favorite ‘SNL’ Character Almost Didn’t Make It On Air It took four or five pitches to convince Lorne Michaels Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 12, 2024
The End of Seth Meyers’ Band Is the Funeral Dirge for Late Night as We Know It Fred Armisen needs a new place to drum Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 12, 2024
Rob Schneider Unleashes Expletive-Laden Rant Against Will Smith Schneider hasn’t been this mad since Garth Brooks drank Bud Light Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 12, 2024
Will Ferrell Crashes His Son’s Prom Pictures Dad, you’re embarrassing me Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 11, 2024
Bill Burr Tells Berkeley Crowd, ‘I F*cking Hate Liberals’ Guess it’s not a safe space anymore Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 11, 2024
Bill Maher Won’t Play College Gigs Anymore: ‘They Don’t Want to Hear Anything They Don’t Agree With’ Not that he has anything against young people Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 11, 2024
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Knew ‘SNL’ Would Be A Disaster “In Like 15 ½ Seconds” She hadn’t even graduated college when she landed on ‘SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 11, 2024
Tina Fey Warned Bowen Yang About Sharing Real Opinions ‘Authenticity is dangerous and expensive’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 10, 2024
Casino Throws George Lopez Under the Bus After Heckler Flap Lopez left the stage after warning fans, but casino says they did nothing wrong Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 10, 2024
Alyson Hannigan Freaked Out Over Taylor Swift’s ‘American Pie’ Shoutout ‘Basically, I was on the date with Travis and Taylor’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 10, 2024
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Calls ‘Red Flag’ When Seinfeld and Other Comics Complain About PC Comedy What’s so funny about trashing tolerance? Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 10, 2024
Cartoon Woody Allen Isn’t Canceled Allen continues to work. In Europe, anyway Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 07, 2024
John Oliver Is Furious He Couldn’t Get Raise From HBO Just ask his former agents Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 07, 2024
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Had a Profane, Five-Word Acceptance Speech for Her Webby CBS let her get through four and a half of them Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 07, 2024
The Dirtiest Joke You’ll Hear Paul McCartney Tell Today Filth is funnier out of the mouths of Beatles Authors By Matt Solomon Published June 07, 2024