Matt Graham (Scrabble player)

Matt Graham is an American comedian and Scrabble player who has represented the United States in international competition. He was the runner-up at the 1997 World Scrabble Championship. Graham was born in Indiana and lives in Queens, New York, and in the late 1980s he shared a Boston apartment with the comedians Marc Maron and David Cross. As a comedy writer and stand-up performer he appeared several times on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, wrote for that show, and worked briefly as a writer on one season of Saturday Night Live. His Scrabble career was featured in the 2001 book Word Freak and in the 2004 documentary film Word Wars, and he performed his show This Too Shall Suck at the 2012 FringeNYC Festival.