Did you see Letterman last night? There was a guest who supposedly produced a documentary about people who do word puzzles. He plays a word puzzle game w/ Letterman and Letterman trumps him with a word, it was "lamb". Letterman pointed out it could also be "balm" and the guy got flustered and tore up the cards and ran out like Ashley Simpson on SNL.

I thought this was just a funny bit that the writers of the Late Show cooked up. It didn't seem like it was unscripted. But now I'm wondering if was unscripted and the guy really did get mad and storm out becaue today I got this in an email about the doc called "Wordplay".

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IFC Films and The Maryland Film Festival invite you to an advance screening of:

Wordplay
Wednesday, June 21st, 7:30 PM
at the Charles Theatre

To enter for your chance to win tickets :
Email tickets@mdfilmfest.com with the subject "WORDPLAY " - In the email make sure to include your mailing address. Tickets will be mailed to the winners. Friends of the Festival members will receive priority. Tickets available while supplies last.





"Punsters, linguists and crossword puzzle fanatics everywhere couldn't ask for a more bracing tribute than helmer Patrick Creadon's buoyant and exhilaratingly brainy docu Wordplay." - Justin Chang, Variety

WORDPLAY is a journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Known to millions as National Public Radio's "Puzzle Master," Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating, and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way. Meet Shortz's diehard fans -- including President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart, filmmaker Ken Burns, the Indigo Girls, and Yankee's ace pitcher Mike Mussina -- and discover why over 50 million Americans do crosswords every week.

WORDPLAY also introduces us to several world-class crossword solvers and follows them to Stamford, CT, as they compete at the 28th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). Hosted and directed by Shortz, the tournament is the nation's oldest and largest crossword competition. Competitors travel from all over the world to attend, and vary in age from teenagers to octogenarians. Over the course of one long, snowy weekend, almost five hundred competitors will battle it out for the title

 

How exactly did he trump him? Maybe I don't understand the game very well...

 

That guy getting upset and storming out is a recurring bit. I think last night's theme was based on that word puzzle guy who was coming on later. I didn't watch past the monologue though.