
Matt Solomon
ComedyNerd at @cracked, former contributor guy at @TheOnion. Co-author of Deck Z and The Giant Smugglers. Larry Dallas on television's Three's Company.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Matt Solomon
Comedian Jeff Ross has staked his career on his reputation as the Roastmaster General, pummeling celebrities with devastating punchlines over decades of celebrity roasts. Ross knows that if he’s famous for dishing it out, he has to take the burns as well — even when they come from his smart-ass oncologist. It all started when Ross’ friend Jordan encouraged him to get a colonoscopy a couple of years back.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Matt Solomon
For a documentary so packed with Pee-wee Herman lore that it required two 90-minute segments, Pee-wee As Himselfglosses over some critical parts of the character’s history. While the majority of Paul Reubens’ comedy career springboards from his Groundlings creation, the two-part doc mostly skips over the fact that other talented people had a hand in creating his stage show, movie and Saturday morning kiddie program.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Matt Solomon
When the powers-that-be at NBC sent someone from Human Resources to talk to Saturday Night Live staffers about sexual harassment, Amy Poehler and Will Forte didn’t exactly take it seriously. “We were consensually and appropriately, just with each other, I believe, drawing pictures of penises and giving them back and forth to each other,” Poehler remembered this week on her Good Hang podcast.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Matt Solomon
You gotta hand it to I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden — when people told her she didn’t have what it took, she just kept going. Her first stab at the entertainment business was training as a vocalist at the prestigious San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she told Jennie Garth on this week’s episode of the I Choose Me podcast. But a singing career wasn’t in the cards, at least according to Eden’s mother. “One day I was singing at home,” she said.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Matt Solomon
It’s doubtful that Joel McHale would have had his successful leading-man career in Community and other comedy projects if he hadn’t addressed the fading hairline he was rocking in this IHOP commercial. McHale’s handsome head of hair is one reason comedian Mark Normand is considering his own hair transplant, he said this week on the We Might Be Drunk podcast.
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