Patrice Laffont found “Numbers and letters” … boring

In seven letters: torpor. Patrice Laffont told the Parisian how painful the minutes given to the candidates to think were to bear during the years of hosting the cult program “Numbers and Letters”. The presenter, now 82, puts it bluntly: “I was bored”.

A young Patrice Laffont took the reins, in 1972 on Antenne 2, of this program created seven years earlier under the name “Le Mot le plus long”. He will stay there for seventeen years. And therefore conceives a certain nostalgia… “In my time, when I presented, it was dramatic. It was very boring”, he let go last January in “The Children of TV”. Relaunch, then, of Laurent Ruquier: “We have seen that in recent years, you are starting to get bored…” Answer : “Long before the last!”.

“I even had a screen installed once to be able to watch Roland-Garros”continues the host in The Parisian. Axelle Laffont’s father obviously preferred to follow the prowess of Bjorn Borgwho won six titles between 1974 and 1981, than candidates who followed one another in the studio.

We also learned at the beginning of July that the game, the oldest still on the air, is losing its daily broadcast on France 3. Instead, Cyril Féraud will present a game entitled “Duels en famille “. “Numbers and Letters” airs Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. “It would have been more coherent to end it”had, invited to react on the question, cursed Patrice Laffont.