He "was a drudge" for John Ogilby in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were revived, he did not again attempt to write for the stage.
The video game The Conduit features a war-damaged version of the Jefferson Memorial in which a firefight between the protagonist Michael Ford and the Drudge aliens takes place.
Drudge had refused to go on air, charging Fox News with censorship when the network prevented him from showing photos of surgery on Samuel Armas.
In June 2008, MBA became involved in a copyright dispute involving Associated Press demand of strict terms for bloggers quoting from their news at the request of Rogers Cadenhead whose Drudge Retort was affected.
In 1999 Matt Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Drudge on the Fox News Channel.