I met JV in Bodmin Cornwall here during a Ronnie exhibition, it was like talking to ya mate after a game. Ronnie (On the other hand) was looking down on people like rubbish. Mechala Tabb was proper down to earth also, sat and had a half hour convo with me.

not very realistic but entertaining

Terry Griffiths rather modest success

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great comment 👍

But he had to delay starting it until he finished the Cliff Thorburn impersonation.

And was the one everyone waited for lol. Next best thing to watching Alex play 😊

he got all his mannerisms spot on but couldnt say his name right -odd

@@cardigan3000 not that odd, just a slight flub under live pressure

@@cardigan3000 He said Alex Higgins didnt he?

@@rleriche5044 "alec"

Well snookers definitely not a sport it's a game of skill control and patience

Virgo does this brilliantly, shame no real characters today !

@@witneywoo ....please read my comment above - bloody great bloke!

You forgot to mention probably the most significant upset in snooker when in 1982 Tony Knowles, in his first world championship knocked out the current champion Steve Davis, 10-1. We had characters in snooker.

1982 - The "I love me" knocks out Mr Smarmy.

Still makes me laugh out loud

Me too. Remember it well.

Ditto 🙂

Best times in snooker , too serious nowadays

Or rather "inch perfick"!!!

Same. Spot on wasn't it?

@@brokensilence6790 It was the best part of the final. Especially if Davis or Thorburn were playing. :) :)

If I remember, it was if a session finished early or if they never got to a final session if one player ran away with it, they'd send Virgo out to do trick shots and impressions, better than the actual snooker in most cases.

Yeah I remember seeing Virgo doing impressions during a championship. Ah memories.

You got that right. The game was much more entertaining then

😂 Thanks for the laugh

But that's good, he's barely aging

scary stuff.

He did win the UK in 1979 so he wasn't too bad a player

@@johnjoyce341 He was also a household name in the 90s thanks to the Big Break gameshow.

Well said.

Pot as many balls as you can.

Jim Davidson and JV on Saturday night TV….. those were the days

“…..pot as many balls as you can…..”

Who underestimates him? Was there a vote? Is there a chart somewhere? Or are you just an unoriginal wanker?

39 now.

Or 'Steady' Eddie Charlton

Damn Hot Chick and that’s gone per-fect.

Nice one !

Is that true? Never knew that. I can't recall him mentioning it in commentary and makes me more like him as a commentator; but I already thought he was the best of the current BBC commentators.

It's a wonder they weren't on strike again for these finals. Everyone else is!

​@andrewmorton3344 I think it was the final frame not the whole match that wasn't shown..

You mean when Barry Hearn was pushing the personalities thing down everyone's throats! Successfully, mind you. The game today is more fascinating than ever, and the level of talent is incredible.

Brilliant

I think you mean nearly 40 years on - 39 to be precise. As funny now as it was then/

@@bridgetdoman1386 .....Yes apologies for my mistake!

Gosh it’s like the KZfaq police have visited and extracted their neccesary apology, before moving on to the next victim!

Your comment made me laugh, even though I'm not sure it is strictly true.

@@andrewmorton3344 You don’t want to think it’s true, John Virgin and Steve Dreary don’t want to think it’s true but we all, deep down, know it’s true.

Thinking about it... You are spot on you made me laugh... Those were the days.

We now have a new era of ultra-aggressive players such as Luca Brecel and Si... they make Ronnie look like Terry Griffiths!

@@BuyOneGetOneFree These guys have played snooker since the age of three, they should be able to knock anything in but it’s become the norm to play like a twat, even Ronnie can spend hours tipping a ball against the green in the balk end. Cricket was the same, pissing about for days, England have now decided to play like we all advocated forty years ago and guess what? It’s working, enjoy the sport win or lose and make it entertaining. Trouble is you’ve got idiots who can watch Selby re racking for an entire session and love it. We will all be laughing at this style of play in ten years time, get rid of the old Dinosaurs and bring in the new, your right!

Haha, yes I thought the same when I was about 15, when I was watching him in that sort of co-host role he had on _Big Break_ in the mid-'90s; it's surreal that another 30 or so years have gone by and he hasn't really aged that much more. The fact that he had the beard and grey in his hair even back in 1984 is quite telling though -- he seems to have born aged about 45!

Yeh remember those days well, even if one of your work mates was 30 they were deemed as old

There is another vid of him doing this a year or two later where he says "I was going to do Cliff but we haven't got time."

Too true sadly.

eh? havent you seen the back-stage fun they have? or the seniors? or the legends?

​@@dave101t yes the joe johnson revamped seniors is wonderful and has very high quality snooker.

Mike Yarwood was a brilliant innovator in his day. Nice guy too.

A snooker player that should have gone further.

I do to and he was spot on .

Yes the 2020s has seen the reemergence of great contrasting characters....the young flashy Chinese wu yize and si...trump,lisowski,vafaii,brecel...selby the spoiler....the old fox higgins...sleepy mark williams....so much contrast in styles