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.
Roy Wood Jr. Would Have Stayed With ‘The Daily Show’ If Hasan Minhaj Got the Job It’s tough to walk away from ‘the best job in comedy’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 14, 2024
‘We Always Loathed and Despised Each Other’: John Cleese Fires Back in Python Feud ‘It’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 14, 2024
Norm Macdonald’s Favorite Weekend Update Joke Was Told By Dennis Miller Or maybe it wasn’t told by Miller at all Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 12, 2024
‘SNL’ Extra Complains on Subreddit About ‘Ancient and Awful’ SAG Contract ‘There are some people who refuse to work it because of it’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 12, 2024
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Almost Pig Vomit in Howard Stern’s ‘Private Parts’ And originally cast as Mrs. Stern? Julia Louis-Dreyfus Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 12, 2024
Eric Idle Rants About Depleted ‘Monty Python’ Riches: ‘I Have to Work for My Living’ A Monty Python reunion? ‘No thanks’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 12, 2024
7 ‘SNL’ Cameos That No One Saw Coming Seven guests guaranteed to make you wonder if you’ve lost your mind Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 11, 2024
5 Comedians Who Found Jesus While many comedians roast religion, a few are keeping the faith Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 11, 2024
Danny DeVito Remembers When Andy Kaufman Wrestled A UPS Woman Outside A ‘Taxi’ Dressing Room ‘She had his a** down, big time’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published February 09, 2024
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
