Matt Solomon

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

After Bowen Yang dressed like baby hippo Moo Deng and made pop-culture jokes on Weekend Update last year, outlets like Variety led the outrage machine with headlines like, “SNL Mocks Chappell Roan.” Mocks? Well, Moo Deng did mention Roan, but it was more of a defense than a diss. “I have to say, Moo Deng,” said Colin Jost, “your life sounds a lot like Chappell Roan’s lately, you know. Do you know Chappell Roan?”“I’m 10 weeks old, Colin,” replied Moo Deng. “Of course I know Chappell Roan.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

The remarkable thing about Varnell Hill, the just-announced sitcom starring Tommy Davidson, isn’t that it’s a spin-off of Martin Lawrence’s hit comedy Martin. The crazy part is that it took nearly 30 years to bring Davidson’s character back, almost assuredly setting a record for the most time passed between an original sitcom and its spin-off. That’s not how it usually works — networks strike while the iron is hot, using the popularity of Happy Days to launch Laverne & Shirley, for example.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Whose fault is it that old SNL pals Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have to deal with rumors about Fey taking over for Lorne Michaels? Blame their old boss, who only a year ago was intimating that he’d stick around through the SNL50 party and then ride off into the sunset.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

In Chapter 15 of Rainn Wilson’s memoir, The Bassoon King, he reveals that he penned lyrics to the famously lyric-less theme song for The Office. But in an epic tease, he didn’t include the words in his book. Maybe, he wrote, he’d reveal them later. Well, later is now. On this week’s episode of the Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know podcast, the host twisted Wilson’s arm.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Just when it seemed like the “Morgan Wallen left 15 seconds early” story would be the weirdest, refuse-to-die Saturday Night Live controversy of the year, “Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth” sauntered up to the bar and said, “Hold my beer.”Getting you up to speed in case you missed it: SNL poked fun at the extended Trump family in an HBO parody called The White Potus. Most of the gags were aimed at political figures, but the character of Chelsea, played by Aimee Lou Wood, was turned into a dental joke.