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.
Al Franken Hated This Charlton Heston Ad-Lib on ‘SNL’ ‘The only problem is, while you’re waiting for your gun, criminals are stealing theirs and running amok!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 29, 2024
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Gets Away With More Than Robert Smigel Ever Could And now he’s hosting a game show, ‘Let’s Make a Poop’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 29, 2024
Alex Edelman’s ‘Just for Us’ Might Be Most Dangerous Comedy Special Ever Edelman looks for laughs while confronting White Nationalists Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 28, 2024
Liam Neeson Won’t Imitate Leslie Nielsen in ‘Naked Gun’ Reboot Surely he can’t duplicate the original star's performance Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 27, 2024
Frankie Muniz Says Kid Actors Have ‘Insanely Negative Experiences’ And Muniz wasn’t even on one of Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon shows Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 27, 2024
Comedy Nerd Quentin Tarantino Cast Five Members of the Groundlings in ‘Pulp Fiction’ Tarantino did improv with the group and ‘was very funny, actually’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 27, 2024
Steve Buscemi Rewrote His ‘SNL’ Monologue So People Would Know Who He Was ‘Oh, is this the year that they’re going after independent film actors or something?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 27, 2024
Bill Maher Builds Podcast Network So Fred Durst Can Talk About UFOs If one hour of Durst conspiracy theories is good, a weekly spew will be even better Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 27, 2024
Steve Martin Finally Finds Peace, Love and Understanding A new sprawling, two-part documentary deep-dives into the career of this previously wild and crazy guy Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 26, 2024
Robin Williams Stopped Going to Comedy Clubs to Avoid Stealing Jokes One comic threw Williams against a wall and demanded $300 for jokes rendered Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 26, 2024
‘Good One: A Show About Jokes’ Is One for the Comedy Nerds ‘Being an autobiographical comedian, it’s not advisable. But also, it’s my favorite type of comedy’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 25, 2024
‘The Price Is Right’ Has Emergency Pants for Overexcited Contestants Accidents are just waiting to happen Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 25, 2024
A Fortune Teller Warned Lucy Lawless Not to Appear on Jay Leno Heck, WE could have warned her Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 25, 2024
‘Massive A-Hole’ Sacha Baron Cohen Allegedly Trying to Block Rebel Wilson’s Memoir ‘The book WILL come out, and you will all know the truth’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 25, 2024
‘SNL’ Didn’t Pay ‘Mr. Bill’ Creator Until Season Four Oh noooooo! Pay the man behind Mr. Bill! Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 24, 2024
Bill Murray’s Favorite ‘SNL’ Memory Was His Most Humbling One ‘SNL’ host blew Murray away with his appreciation for others Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 23, 2024
Christopher McDonald Invented Some of Shooter McGavin’s Best ‘Happy Gilmore’ Moments ‘Choke on that, baby!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 23, 2024
Jodie Sweetin Channels ‘Inappropriate and Dark’ Comedy of TV Dad Bob Saget We’re still waiting for Sweetin’s version of the Aristocrats Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 22, 2024
Larry David Refuses to Fill Out A March Madness Bracket ‘I’m supposed to know who’s on Drake? This is crazy!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 22, 2024
Jim Breuer Says Woke Psychopaths Are Starting to Lighten Up Breuer says Netflix won’t feature white comics over 40. Reality says something different Authors By Matt Solomon Published March 22, 2024
