SNL Oblivion Boys: “Pot Snooker” (1986)

Billiard Television Editor — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:41:35 +0000

This is an undiscovered gem from the first series of “Saturday Live”. The Oblivion Boys (Steve Frost and Mark Arden) serve up an inspired sketch filled with surreal and (largely) silent slapstick based around the phenomenom of televised snooker, which was becoming omnipresent on UK TV by the 80s. An interesting 80s pop culture moment occurs when the sketch briefly morphs into “Robin of Sherwood”, ( http://tinyurl.com/n8zqn ) a popular 80s show on ITV with music by Clannad (From their album “Legend”). The name is a play of the title of a popular snooker show at the time called “Pot Black”.

(By the way, anyone that’s played snooker, or even watched it on TV, will tell you that the Oblivion Boys deliberately break nearly every rule in snooker right from the start of the sketch onwards. Not one move, even the seemingly non-jokey bits, is legal. )

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Billiard Television Editor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:10:54 +0000

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Ray Hitler Trick Pool Shots

Billiard Television Editor — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:29:55 +0000

This is part one of the award-winning series of trick shot videos by pool expert, Ray Hitler.
Note: Ray Hitler is not real, and this is intended for comedy purposes. You will learn absolutely no trick shots or see any if you watch this.

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SNL Oblivion Boys: “Pot Snooker” (1986)

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