Matt Solomon
Matt is the co-author of Deck Z: The Titanic and The Giant Smugglers, as well as a contributor at The Onion for 16 years. He has a master's degree in Communications Theory from Northern Illinois University.
8 Completely Lame ‘SNL’-Themed Halloween Costumes You Can Buy
The ‘SNL’ costumes that scream ‘I made no effort at all’
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5 Oscar Winners You Forgot Were on A Sitcom
No one would have predicted these guys would bring home the gold
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Bernie Mac’s Daughter Didn’t Always Appreciate Being Part of His Act
The jokes were great when she was a kid. But as a teen?
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Originally Planned to Make ‘Book of Mormon’ As An Animated Film
It could have been another ‘Team America: World Police’
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5 Famous Comics You Didn’t Know Wrote for ‘SNL’
The writers’ room might have been funnier than the cast
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Johnny Carson Left ‘The Tonight Show’ Set to Exact Revenge on Don Rickles
‘Someone broke my cigarette box!’
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Jerry Seinfeld Backtracks on Comments That ‘Extreme Left’ Is Killing Comedy
Professor Comedy takes it all back — well, most of it
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‘Masked Singer’ Picked This Week of All Weeks to Feature ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’
A hurricane hitting Florida in the fall was no surprise
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Chevy Chase Heckles Shooter McGavin
‘It’s an easy shot, (bleep)head!’
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5 ‘SNL’ Sketches that Never Saw the Light of Day
Sometimes, the censors win
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Columbo Day Should Be A National Holiday
There’s just one more thing...
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‘Pulp Fiction’ at 30: Five of the Movie’s Funniest Moments
It’s funnier than the time Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on ‘Golden Girls’
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Why ‘Too Carol Burnett’ Was the Ultimate Diss on Early ‘Saturday Night Live’
Burnett = too broad, too bourgeois, too smug
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Diddy Once Warned Ashton Kutcher Not to Punk Him: ‘That Will Not End Well for You’
Plenty of things aren’t ending well for Kutcher
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Technical Glitches Put the ‘Live’ Back in ‘Saturday Night Live’
Last night, ‘SNL’s tech difficulties echoed its first-ever episode
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As George Lopez Quits Comedy, Here’s A Brief History of Him Being Terrible
Lopez is a good guy, unless you’re another comic, a paying customer or his wife
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Norm Macdonald Thought Alec Baldwin’s Trump Impression Was Terrible Comedy
One of his former castmates did it better
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50 Years Later, Does the First Episode of ‘SNL’ Hold Up?
You might not recognize ‘SNL’ from its first episode
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A New Book Exposes a Marx Brothers Link to Organized Crime
‘This guy was really shady’
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Robin Williams ‘Sabotaged’ Other Comedians at the Improv
There was no such thing as Williams doing a tight five
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