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.
Albert Brooks and Steve Martin Agree: It Sucks To Open For Musicians Paul F. Tompkins nailed it: ‘There’s something about comedy in front of music that makes people lose their minds’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 12, 2024
14 Times O.J. Simpson Got No Mercy From ‘SNL’s Norm Macdonald ‘The Hertz rental car company announced this week that it will try to find a new spokesman who won’t kill his ex-wife’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 11, 2024
The Reason They Kept Dick Van Dyke Far Away From ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ America was convinced TV’s Petries were married in real life Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 11, 2024
Demetri Martin Forgot You Can’t Pee in New York Even though there’s nowhere to urinate, Stephen Colbert has a solution Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 10, 2024
Mel Brooks Was Baffled When Alex Edelman Told Him He Was Woke ‘Blazing Saddles’ is politically correct? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 10, 2024
8 Celebs Who Should Have Been Way Too Famous for Sitcom Cameos Will somebody just give Brad Pitt a sitcom already? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 10, 2024
Catherine O’Hara To People Who Don’t Like Beetlejuice Sequel: “F*** Them” Michael Keaton agrees: “It’s really f***ing good.” Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 10, 2024
Conan O’Brien Returns to ‘Tonight Show,’ Reminisces About 10 Minutes As Host ‘You’ll move on and someone else will be in this studio,’ Conan warned Fallon Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 10, 2024
Andy Griffith and Aunt Bee Had Beef on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ ‘Oh, Andy’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 09, 2024
Neal Brennan Doesn’t Know Why You Need Ellen to Be Nice In his new Netlfix special ‘Crazy Good,’ Brennan asks why we want comedians to be more than just funny Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 09, 2024
Netflix Just Rejected David Lynch’s Plan to Freak Out Your Kids Netflix, we need our nightmares! Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 08, 2024
Sobriety Taught Tiffany Haddish That She Was ‘Way Too Nice’ While Drinking Sober Haddish says what needs to be said Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 08, 2024
5 Favorite Sitcoms That Got Pounded By FCC Complaints You expect the FCC to let a show say ‘He smurfed the smurf out of her’? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 08, 2024
If You’re Not in A City That Can See Solar Eclipse, Here’s Kenan Thompson’s Version You won’t even need special glasses from Amazon Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 08, 2024
David Brenner Paid Richard Lewis A Thousand Bucks to Become a Full-Time Comic Now that’s a mentor Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 07, 2024
‘Arrested Development’ Was the Anti-‘Golden Girls’ ‘Arrested’ writers warped ‘Golden Girls’ structures to create sitcom jazz Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 07, 2024
Kristen Wiig Refuses to Play Her ‘SNL’ Hits — And That’s A Good Thing Wiig left nearly all of her old characters in the past where they belong Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 07, 2024
Harold Ramis ‘Didn’t Like ‘Saturday Night Live’ Very Much’ ‘The people I know on the show, I’d seen them all do better work’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 06, 2024
5 Ways Boudoir Photography Made Matt Mathews A Better Comedian What is stand-up comedy if not tastefully exposing yourself? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 05, 2024
Before Nickelodeon, Dan Schneider Was the Creep in This John Cusack Comedy Unwanted touching? Disrespect for women? What is this, a behind-the-scenes feature on ‘iCarly’? Authors By Matt Solomon Published April 05, 2024
