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.
Did Pete Davidson Bail on Matt Rife Show at the Last Minute? Rife defends ‘my boy Pete’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 09, 2024
Jeff Dunham Has A Valentine’s Day Special Only A Mother Could Love If you’ve always wanted to see Walter’s puppet nipples, we’ve got a special for you Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 09, 2024
Comic Relief Was Comedy’s Answer to ‘We Are The World’ Comics goofed around to help the homeless Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
5 Things Brad Williams Has Learned as a Little Person Comedian ‘If you Google ‘dwarf comic,’ it’s not like there's gonna be a whole laundry list of names that come up’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
Bill Maher Pulls Plug on Two-Hour Interview With Kanye West Even though Maher and Ye had ‘an amazing fun time’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
Fired Stars Norm Macdonald and Adam Sandler Clapped Back When They Hosted ‘SNL’ ‘How did I go from being not funny enough to be even allowed in the building to being so funny that I’m now hosting the show?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
The First Time ‘SNL’ Apologized for a Joke During a Live Show What’s so funny about cease-and-desist letters? Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
The ‘Wayne’s World’ Joke That Got Edited Out of ‘SNL’ Reruns It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that schwing Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 07, 2024
5 Lessons of Failed Romance with ‘The Daily Show’s Dulcé Sloan Sloan prefers in-person encounters to dating apps: ‘That’s usually how I catch my prey’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 06, 2024
The Most Important Sitcoms with the Fewest Number of Episodes Six sitcom episodes inspired an all-time comedy movie franchise Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 06, 2024
The Five Lowest-Rated Sitcoms, According to Rotten Tomatoes A 0 percent rating on the Tomatometer is its own kind of perfection Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 06, 2024
Three Things Grammy Voters Must Be Thinking in Order to Award Dave Chappelle Yet Again The three kinds of voters behind Chappelle’s Grammy dominance Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 05, 2024
Little-Known Comedians Who Made a Huge Impact on Today’s Comedy Minimal fame, maximum comedy influence Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 05, 2024
7 Sitcom Crossovers That Weren’t Satisfying to Either Shows’ Audience When one plus one equals terrible Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 05, 2024
Nikki Haley Is Just the Latest Bad Politician Lorne Michaels Has Happily Welcomed to ‘SNL’ Is an ‘SNL’ appearance just part of everyone's campaign trail now? Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 04, 2024
8 Comedy Spin-offs You Forgot Were Spin-offs ‘The Simpsons’ is even older than you think Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 04, 2024
Why Lorne Michaels Can’t Quit Shane Gillis The ‘SNL’ producer sees a kindred comedy spirit in Shane Gillis Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 04, 2024
How ‘SCTV’ Kept Canada’s Comedy Elite From ‘Saturday Night Live’ ‘Wait a minute,’ said Canada. ‘Why are they going somewhere else?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 04, 2024
Ayo Edebiri Proves Female Stand-Ups Rule on ‘SNL’ Edebiri crushes her hosting debut Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 04, 2024
Dana Carvey and David Spade Should Get Their First Podcast Right Before Starting Another One Aren’t these guys stretched thin enough already? Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 02, 2024
