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.
Roastmaster General Jeff Ross Says Nothing Is Off Limits for Tom Brady Skewering Except for one thing: ‘He asked us not to mention his prosthetic leg’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 02, 2024
Carroll O’Connor Thought ‘All in the Family’ Critics Were ‘Hacks and Semi-Literates’ ‘I do think the managing editors of newspapers hire inferior people to write television’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 01, 2024
Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day As ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ Just Won’t Go Away Now we really want to see ‘The Fall Guy’? Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 01, 2024
John Belushi Didn’t Want to Die, Lorne Michaels Warned John Mulaney ‘I knew John Belushi for seven years. I’ve been talking about him for 48 years’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 01, 2024
The 4 Worst Choices ‘SNL’ Has Ever Made How could they hire Aykroyd and Belushi? (Jim and Peter, I mean) Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 01, 2024
Bob Odenkirk Says Failed ‘Mr. Show’ Movie Was ‘Worst Experience’ of Career ‘It’s a very short movie, but it feels really long’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published May 01, 2024
Rainn Wilson Is Sick of ‘Office’ Fans’ Jell-O Pranks ‘I hope people cool it with the Jell-O jokes’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 30, 2024
Is This What Jerry Seinfeld Had in Mind for His ‘Pop-Tart’ Promotional Tour? Nothing’s less funny than Seinfeld’s comedy lectures Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 30, 2024
Here Are the Comics John Mulaney Thinks Are Funnier Than Him Hint: He wrote for three of them Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 30, 2024
The Failed 'SNL' Sketch That Steve Martin Can't Let Go For all his success, this is the sketch Martin keeps talking about. Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 29, 2024
David Cross/Bob Odenkirk Reunion Scrapped By Analytics: ‘They Have All the F***ing Power’ Is there any hope for ‘Guru Nation’? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 29, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld Blames Death of TV Comedy on ‘Extreme Left and PC Crap’ Can’t anyone joke about the homeless anymore? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 29, 2024
Colin Jost’s 10 Best Burns From the White House Correspondents’ Dinner It was Weekend Update in a tuxedo Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 28, 2024
‘Young Sheldon’ Star Calls Cancellation ‘Such A Stupid Business Move’ ‘We were totally ambushed by this’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 26, 2024
All Howard Stern Ever Really Wanted Was the Legitimacy of Interviewing a Sitting President Post-Scores Howard has his dreams come true Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 26, 2024
Ellen DeGeneres Says She Got Kicked Out of Show Business How many times can one comedian get canceled? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 26, 2024
Netflix Explains Why It’s in the Dave Chappelle and Matt Rife Business If you don’t like it, says Netflix, turn it off Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 26, 2024
Paula Pell Regrets Playing Mom to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Cast ‘I was like Nana SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 25, 2024
Ron Howard Did ‘Happy Days’ to Avoid the Draft Opie had a lousy draft number and only one way out Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 25, 2024
Dave Attell Names 10 Comics on His Misshapen Mount Rushmore of Comedy Maybe it’s more of a Comic Supreme Court Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 25, 2024