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.
The 5 Horniest ‘SNL’ Sketches Ever All the times ‘Saturday Night Live’ inspired cold showers Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 24, 2024
Bill Maher Was Almost ‘SNL’ Weekend Update Anchor Over Norm Macdonald In an alternate universe, Weekend Update would have gotten some New Rules Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 23, 2024
The Oscars Forbid Amy Schumer From Telling This Alec Baldwin Joke Shots fired Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 23, 2024
The Tom Hanks/David Spade 'SNL' Sketch That Never Saw the Light of Day Hanks has the best take: ‘Hey, we tried’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 23, 2024
Pauly Shore as Richard Simmons Might Just Win Him A ‘F***ing Oscar’ And if Simmons doesn’t like it, too bad Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 22, 2024
This Was The Worst ‘SNL’ Sketch, and It’s Not Even Close Even NBC execs were pulling out their hair: ‘This is a disaster’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 22, 2024
5 Comedians Who Do Some of Their Best Work When They Knock Off the Funny Business Just give Ali Wong all the prizes Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 22, 2024
Comics Applaud Natasha Leggero’s Shirtless Answer to Bert Kreischer ‘If the boys can do it, why can’t the girls?’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 22, 2024
Jacob Elordi Was So Terrible on ‘SNL’ That Beautiful People Should Never Be Allowed to Host Again Elordi is handsome, but do we need four sketches about it? Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 21, 2024
5 Celebs Who Have Turned Down the Opportunity to Host ‘SNL’ Meet five famous people who never went live from New York Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 21, 2024
‘Saturday Night’ Beef: The Cast Members Who Loathed Each Other the Most ‘David Spade, who the f*** do you think you are?!?!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 20, 2024
Worst Late-Night Jokes for the Week of January 15, 2024 If you’re a late-night host, jokes about Kentucky cousin sex are mandatory Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 19, 2024
Martin Scorsese Almost Directed One of Eddie Murphy’s Biggest Comedies And it probably would have been nearly four hours long Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 18, 2024
Matt Rife Wears Many Hats, No Shirt in ‘Private Eye’ Trailer The movie’s director says Rife is a combination of Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 18, 2024
A Timeline of People Trying to Reinvent Stand-Up A brief history from Mort Sahl to Hannah Gadsby Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 18, 2024
Dana Carvey Returns to ‘Fly on the Wall’ Podcast After Being on ‘Pain Train’ ‘I’m on the pain train with millions of other people on this planet’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 18, 2024
Melissa Rivers Says Joan Would Have Loved Ozempic Joan on exercise: ‘If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2024
Niecy Nash-Betts Had A ‘Reno 911’ Prosthetic Butt With An Unlikely Prince Connection The model for Nash-Betts’ fake butt helped the ‘Reno 911’ star meet Prince Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2024
The ‘Playboy’ Parody That Launched the ‘National Lampoon’ Turns out that comedy plus naked bodies equals sales success Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2024
Did Lorne Michaels Just Pass the ‘SNL’ Baton to Tina Fey? Who’s getting Lorne’s chair? ‘It could easily be Tina Fey’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published January 17, 2024