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.
Andy Griffith Couldn’t Get A Job After Mayberry He wanted to be a movie star, but the movies didn’t want him Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 08, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Called Out Aziz Ansari for Participating in Riyadh Comedy Festival ‘The people who paid the comedians to come to this are not good people’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 07, 2025
Dick Van Dyke Says It Would Be ‘Funny’ If He Died Just Weeks Before His 100th Birthday Mark your calendars for December 13th Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 07, 2025
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Are Ready to Do ‘Bill & Ted 4’ If you thought waiting for Godot took a long time... Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 07, 2025
Sherri Shepherd Has Personal Reason for Wanting New Black Woman on ‘SNL’: ‘It Is An Emergency’ She doesn’t want Kenan playing Sherri Shepherd Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 07, 2025
This Guy Was the Real-Life Inspiration for Norm on ‘Cheers’ Every bar needs a guy named Norm Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 06, 2025
Gay Comedian Jessica Kirson Apologizes for Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival ‘I am genuinely sorry for making a poor decision that had repercussions I didn’t fully consider’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 06, 2025
Comic Says ‘SNL’ Ripped Off Season Premiere Sketch From Her Instagram It wouldn’t be ‘Saturday Night Live’ with online accusations of joke theft Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 06, 2025
Horror Comedy Icon Elvira Hasn’t Completely Forgiven Ariana Grande Which witch was in the wrong? Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 06, 2025
Louis C.K. Kinda Agrees With David Cross’ Riyadh Comedy Criticism Maybe Cross is right, but C.K. is going anyway Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 06, 2025
Lorne Michaels Promised ‘SNL’ Shake-up But Doubled Down on Same Tired Formula Who knew we’d get a Trump cold open, a game show bit and a fake commercial? Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 05, 2025
Michael Che and Colin Jost Come Out Swinging: The 10 Best Jokes From the Season’s First ‘SNL’ Weekend Update The ‘SNL’ vets wasted no time throwing comic punches Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 05, 2025
Why You Shouldn’t Try to Be Funny at Work, According to Science You’re not stand-up material, pal Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 03, 2025
Miley Cyrus Figures She Was First Entertainer to Be Canceled Note to Miley: Not even close Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 03, 2025
Here’s Why Henry Winkler Loves ‘Jump the Shark’ Conversations Cue the picture of Fonzie in Bermuda shorts Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 03, 2025
Here’s Why NBC Should Shorten ‘Saturday Night Live’ to One Hour ‘SNL’ would be better if there were less to love Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 02, 2025
Dave Chappelle Tells Riyadh Comedy Fest ‘It’s Easier to Talk Here Than It Is in America’ He didn’t mention the contract outlining all the off-limits topics Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 02, 2025
The Best Burns of the Golden Bachelor From the Women Who Want to Date Him Revenge is best served roasted Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 02, 2025
Norm Macdonald Reached Out to Shane Gillis After ‘SNL’ Firing Norm also publicly called out ‘SNL’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 02, 2025
Here’s Why Doing Things the Johnny Carson Way Won’t Work in 2025 Sorry, Jimmy Fallon, we can’t party like it’s 1977 Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 01, 2025
