I saw an exhibition a few years ago. Steve Davis, Ken Doherty and Jimmy White. Jimmy was very quiet and shy. Ken was very friendly and full of banter but Steve stole the show with his stories and showmanship. He's a class act and a genuinely nice man. Worth every penny to go and see!
Funny you should say, I went to see Mark Williams and he didn't say a word on mic,I mean he didn't say a word.on tour he's meant to be a bit of a joker,then I saw Steve Davis...he had the room in the palm of his hand.he was hilarious,so was his snooker...his highest break was only 75 in 10 frames. Great night
He got the reputation because when he was at his peak and winning things, he was all business and mind games when it came to playing snooker. He's a brilliant guy though really. 🙂
I was away with my work when this happened. I was devastated to miss it. Steve Davies is an absolute legend for anyone from my generation. Seriously funny guy too! Thanks for posting.
Still the ultimate professional. Raised the bar to a level never seen before, single handedly with no one in his league to push him further. Sad to see his decline through the nineties but most of us hit our peak, plateau then drop off. Its hard for the younger generation to actually appreciate how he consumed and devastated his opponents. Most clips on you tube show his misses and bloopers but in reality they were few and far between. Ronnie o sullivan at the top but then Davis and hendry, then Higgins and selby, then trump followed by the rest.
@@christiano8088 Davis has been and still is snooker's greatest ambassador. O'Scumivan may be the most 'naturally gifted' player, but he'll never be respected anywhere near as much as the likes of Davis, Hendry, Readon etc.
@@jaysmith2858 i agree with you Jay..cannot stand O'Sullivan at all..arrogant and very rude and nasty man..I think Davis is the better player.. Ronnie has the flair yes..but Davis has the more all round game and it was him that started the snooker revolution and made the game what it is today..love him commentating or doing his punditry..so funny..realised this when he appeared on I'm a celebrity..damn he was funny abd didn't take himself seriously at all..should have placed higher but don't think all of the voting public realised who he was
I grew up with this guy in Commowealth way, Abbey wood. I knew that whatever he did he would do it well. Pretty good at football too. We used to play keeping the ball up, which amounted not letting the football touch the ground, using feet knees and nut. So, I got about ten. My mate Terry had a go, I went in for my dinner. When I came out, Steve is having a go, so I says to Terry how many did you get? 50 he says, so asks Steve what he was on, as a reply he starts counting out loud, 96, 97, 98. The future world champion’s name was already written on the wall at the age of ten. It was just a matter of Steve choosing what he wanted to be champion of.
Hmm. Not bad, Taffy. I hate to be the one to do it, but the question has to be asked. How did you manage to pot even one red with the triangle still on?
@@BigGamesZelda Sorry forgot that, but he does have that kind of delivery. It is a bit exaggerated here, probably as you said for the benefit of the audience. He used to speak slowly to play up to his UK media nickname "Interesting" (on account of him being 'boring') and seem even more boring.
@@paulberrington2773 - As we all found out later. You can't always judge people by their demeanor when they play sport, but I did assume Davis was as dull as he seemed and was portrayed. His humor can be ultra-dry.
I remember him on spitting image back in the 80s and he raps "My name may not be Charlton Heston but at least I'm interesting, and I'm giving you the chance, to do the new Steve Davies dance" There was a bit more but I only remember that but and about 15 years later I was living at my mates and we were watching a film on video and when it finished the Steve Davies spitting image rap came on and i started doing it and my pal was like "How the f did u know that" 😂😂
How I hated him when I was a kid. Loved Alex Higgins so he was the arch enemy. Of course you grow up and appreciate what a magnificent snooker player he truly was and a genuinely nice chap. Still love Alex though God bless the old devil.
I'm sure Judd Trump has seen this. And if he does live into 2074, I'll bet he'll be thinking back about this joke that the late, great Steve Davis once told.
To be fair, the crowd are Hungarian, so they've done pretty well. Incidentally, I first heard this joke more than fifty years ago, except that God thought he was George Best.
I think he was a snooker player in the 70s. Used the name Roy Readen, or something. Someone else used to wear upside down glasses. But it wasn't this bloke.
A well delivered joke, Steve is a good communicator, he's not a good DJ for nothing. I think he should have let it be at 2:20, everyone got it at that point.
Hang on, if Ronnie's not in heaven where is he? If Judd asks if he's there, I'm assuming he's dead too. Unless, he did a Lord Lucan & is still alive age 98-99.
Judds only 30/31 so would be about 85 at the time, definitely possible, given Reardons still alive at nearly 90 and yeah Ronnies going where his father's going
The punchline should have gone, Judd Trump: I thought you said Ronnie O’Sullivan wasn’t up here? St Peter: He’s not Judd Trump: Well who’s that then. St Peter: Oh he just *thinks* he’s Ronnie.......that’s God.
I saw an exhibition a few years ago. Steve Davis, Ken Doherty and Jimmy White. Jimmy was very quiet and shy. Ken was very friendly and full of banter but Steve stole the show with his stories and showmanship. He's a class act and a genuinely nice man. Worth every penny to go and see!
Ken came to our club for an exhibition, exactly that, full of banter, virgo was there too commentating, both together were hilarious
Jimmy wasn't shy... he was probably stoned.
Funny you should say, I went to see Mark Williams and he didn't say a word on mic,I mean he didn't say a word.on tour he's meant to be a bit of a joker,then I saw Steve Davis...he had the room in the palm of his hand.he was hilarious,so was his snooker...his highest break was only 75 in 10 frames. Great night
It's fantastic that Steve has evolved from his 80s robot image to such an endearing entertainer. Hats off to the lad big style!
It's funny because he was so shy when he was younger. He well succeded in overcoming his timidity.
Saw Steve at an exhibition night, a few days after he won his first world title, very witty and captivating guy, nothing boring about him at all.
He got the reputation because when he was at his peak and winning things, he was all business and mind games when it came to playing snooker. He's a brilliant guy though really. 🙂
God (or "Ronnie") bless the panel sports quiz show They Think It's All Over as it allowed Steve to completely turn his 80s "boring" reputation around.
I was away with my work when this happened. I was devastated to miss it. Steve Davies is an absolute legend for anyone from my generation. Seriously funny guy too! Thanks for posting.
Still the ultimate professional. Raised the bar to a level never seen before, single handedly with no one in his league to push him further. Sad to see his decline through the nineties but most of us hit our peak, plateau then drop off. Its hard for the younger generation to actually appreciate how he consumed and devastated his opponents. Most clips on you tube show his misses and bloopers but in reality they were few and far between. Ronnie o sullivan at the top but then Davis and hendry, then Higgins and selby, then trump followed by the rest.
@@christiano8088 Davis has been and still is snooker's greatest ambassador. O'Scumivan may be the most 'naturally gifted' player, but he'll never be respected anywhere near as much as the likes of Davis, Hendry, Readon etc.
@@jaysmith2858 i agree with you Jay..cannot stand O'Sullivan at all..arrogant and very rude and nasty man..I think Davis is the better player.. Ronnie has the flair yes..but Davis has the more all round game and it was him that started the snooker revolution and made the game what it is today..love him commentating or doing his punditry..so funny..realised this when he appeared on I'm a celebrity..damn he was funny abd didn't take himself seriously at all..should have placed higher but don't think all of the voting public realised who he was
40 yrs since Steve won his first World 🏆. Time flies.
Steve Davis was always brilliant,
along with Hendry, and Ronnie,the 3 players in living memory to own their own era as champions.
I grew up with this guy in Commowealth way, Abbey wood. I knew that whatever he did he would do it well. Pretty good at football too.
We used to play keeping the ball up, which amounted not letting the football touch the ground, using feet knees and nut. So, I got about ten. My mate Terry had a go, I went in for my dinner.
When I came out, Steve is having a go, so I says to Terry how many did you get? 50 he says, so asks Steve what he was on, as a reply he starts counting out loud, 96, 97, 98.
The future world champion’s name was already written on the wall at the age of ten. It was just a matter of Steve choosing what he wanted to be champion of.
I’ve done that with my mates as a kid. Started on 1 and straight to 99
Definitely not a comedian champion.
That was actually pretty funny. Would love to have seen Ron and Judd's reaction to the joke. Well done!!
Steve always sends himself up.
Great to see him enjoying a bit of fun at his mates expense.
😂🤣 Love Steve Davis. Legend!
A terrific compliment to Ronnie from a fellow god
I've just taken up snooker. Took me 167 attempts to pot my first red.
Then the barman shouted over I should take the triangle off....
Thanks for the chuckle
@@daviebevan lol, laughter is a great medicine David
Hmm. Not bad, Taffy. I hate to be the one to do it, but the question has to be asked. How did you manage to pot even one red with the triangle still on?
@@renejean2523 "I attempted 167 times to pot my first Red' I didnt say I achieved it did I?
Theres always one 🙄
@@renejean2523 I could break a triangle with 167 shots at it
This is very good considering what just happened in the World Final.
True
He delivers this joke remarkably well - as good as any comedian could!
No, a good comedian would not have stopped after "that's god", they would have carried on for a bigger finish.
He was terrible at telling it
Are you joking, cause Davis was as fukin dull as always
@@davideg1001dg shut it
@@soilentgreen7 ok with that extensive response what can i say but.......no
I didn't expect much, but this is a really good joke. :) Thanks for sharing!
Steve actually has good delivery, slightly befuddled and chummy.
Because in this video he’s speaking to a Hungarian audience so he’s delivering the entire routine deliberately slowly
His delivery fell short when he stopped after saying "that's god".
@@BigGamesZelda Sorry forgot that, but he does have that kind of delivery. It is a bit exaggerated here, probably as you said for the benefit of the audience. He used to speak slowly to play up to his UK media nickname "Interesting" (on account of him being 'boring') and seem even more boring.
Steve should have stopped his joke at 2.20 cos that's when he received an applause and laughter.
Totally agree. Cocked it up
@@henrysmith883 Might be why he isn't a professional comedian? There's only so many talents a man can have, Steve Davis seems to have more than most.
Old but gold..
Thanks for sharing. Great one.
Steve ‘Interesting’ Davis.
(Actually he is)
And in there lies the irony!
Steve Davies is one of the greatest ambassadors of snooker,
Good man
I laughed out loud!TY
He looks more like Stan Laurel the older he gets
So who is Oliver Hardy?
@@subrosa7708 Bill Werbeniuk
Lol, I was thinking the same!
I’ve always thought that John Higgins has a Stan Laurel look about him.
Legend! 🤘😎🎸
Very funny and very well told.
Met Steve when he was unbeatable during the 80s Great guy, wasn't like the way the media reported him.
@@paulberrington2773 - As we all found out later. You can't always judge people by their demeanor when they play sport, but I did assume Davis was as dull as he seemed and was portrayed. His humor can be ultra-dry.
God of snooker rocket ronnie.
Ronnie 'god of scumbags' O'Sullivan.
Good one Interesting Davis.
I had a great chance of a 147 once but I missed the first red.
I usually miss the first black. 7 points makes me nervous.
I've never seen this joke anywhere before
Good Stan Laurel impression 👍
davis: sadly, judd trump dies
crowd: laughs
Brilliant!
Back in the day it was a golf joke, God thought he was Jack Nicklas
Or, in a previous version I heard, Arnold Palmer. It probably goes back to some caveman joke about Ug. Or even earlier.
This is even funnier after WC final of 2022 ;)
That's actually a good joke if you wait for the very last line.
Here after Ronnie's 7th world titel against judd trump!!!
I remember him on spitting image back in the 80s and he raps "My name may not be Charlton Heston but at least I'm interesting, and I'm giving you the chance, to do the new Steve Davies dance" There was a bit more but I only remember that but and about 15 years later I was living at my mates and we were watching a film on video and when it finished the Steve Davies spitting image rap came on and i started doing it and my pal was like "How the f did u know that" 😂😂
All Trumps will be barred from upstairs in case they let the wrong one in by mistake....
The crowd laughed at the wrong part and ruined it...
Still a Class Act.
Awesome delivery - but the additional topper at the end did not work.
Nice one!
Best snooker joke
It's the way he tells them.
That's interesting, Steve...
Very funny
Hilarious 😳
Steve Davis is definitely like marmite.
ronnie o sullivan likes this.
Was that a punchline at the end or did he run out of things to say?
What happened to the snooker programme. Snookering you. Big break or something
There were two main snooker programmes and the BBC scrapped both. They were Pot Black and Big Break.
If you think about this joke, it's a great joke at the expense of O'Sullivan.
Old school English joke... gotta love em
You could have probably told that joke in 20 seconds
How I hated him when I was a kid. Loved Alex Higgins so he was the arch enemy. Of course you grow up and appreciate what a magnificent snooker player he truly was and a genuinely nice chap. Still love Alex though God bless the old devil.
Steve interesting Davis, say no more.
I'm sure Judd Trump has seen this. And if he does live into 2074, I'll bet he'll be thinking back about this joke that the late, great Steve Davis once told.
He’s still alive!👍
@@marianrose1259 Not in 2074 he won't be.
@@johnjenkins4392 born August 1989, so, in 2074 will be like 85. why not to be still alive ?
@@SCIPs-xx5yl I was referring to Steve Davis, not Judd Trump.
I’m guessing they done in an evening session when the snooker finished quite quickly
The crowd laughed at the wrong bit and ruined the punchline at the very end! 🤦♂️😂
To be fair, the crowd are Hungarian, so they've done pretty well. Incidentally, I first heard this joke more than fifty years ago, except that God thought he was George Best.
This was in Budapest & so not an English speaking audience, unfortunately.
Talented bloke that Mr S.Davis
Might have to invite Steve to a comedy open mike night down my local.There's a few blokes in there I can't stand.That'll soon get rid of em.😝😝
Excellent…true story?!
😂😂😂😂
Steve
Not everyone in the front row found this amusing.......wonder why?
Probably Catholics!
judging by the description probably hungarian
Zoroastrian I reckon
He gave to long of a pause when he said god. The crowd didn’t ruin it he did.
Put this on at 147 comments , hows that for timing
Sadly.... The joke has turned the other ways making Judd Trump, the God keeping Ronnie in earlier Judd's place😉😉😉😉😉
Not really - Trump's doing phenomenally well but he's not matched Ronnie's achievements yet. Might do in the future though.
@@gavpowell7864 I agree with you and would like to extend my best wishes to Judd Trump to play well and reach heights as we are expecting 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🤝🤝🤝
steve has hidden talents as a .......musician ! check out the prog band , The Utopia Strong , bloody good too , if you like that sort of thing
Awesome delivery that makes a joke great :)
It's a good thing St Peter is at the gate and not Peter Ebdon - you'd be waiting forever before he lets one person in.
2:34 Stan Laurel.. 😂
Love Steve but he is a way better better snooker player than a joke teller.
It was Hungary to be fair.. hence time lag on punchline..
Interesting.
I think he was a snooker player in the 70s. Used the name Roy Readen, or something.
Someone else used to wear upside down glasses. But it wasn't this bloke.
That was Dennis Taylor with his specially made glasses you are on about
@@albundy774 Nope. Dennis Tanner, I think you'll find you mean. He was on Eastenders, but didn't wear glasses.
Ronald O'Sutherland
@@baghiballsakh82 What about him? He's the Essex chav bloke. Doesn't wear glasses.
did ur research well.
Lol
If that was the best snooker joke, I should hate to hear the worst.
Would that be you? 😆
@@10beanz Channeling Jonathan Swift are we?
@@floriangeyer1 Like Gulliver's Travels? That an example of your lame humour?
@@10beanz Ah, would that we were all blessed with your coruscating wit.
And two "l"s in Gulliver.
@@floriangeyer1 Agreed. We all can't be funny; look at you for example.
A well delivered joke, Steve is a good communicator, he's not a good DJ for nothing. I think he should have let it be at 2:20, everyone got it at that point.
As a God fearing man I probably shouldn't have found this joke funny but it's a funny joke.
That joke could have been half as long.
The new c3po
The crowd were not English, always difficult to tell a joke when English is not the audiences first language. Love Steve though!
Hendry is god
The word is probably overused but Steve Davis is an absolute LEGEND.
Hang on, if Ronnie's not in heaven where is he? If Judd asks if he's there, I'm assuming he's dead too. Unless, he did a Lord Lucan & is still alive age 98-99.
Ronnie won't have made it "upwards".... he took the "downstairs escalator".....
Judds only 30/31 so would be about 85 at the time, definitely possible, given Reardons still alive at nearly 90 and yeah Ronnies going where his father's going
Peaked too early Steve.
What an accomplished man, he plays billiards.
And modular synths.
He was Steve boring Davis now he's all right
Hated Steve boring Davis when he was at his peak but the guy is funny
The punchline should have gone,
Judd Trump: I thought you said Ronnie O’Sullivan wasn’t up here?
St Peter: He’s not
Judd Trump: Well who’s that then.
St Peter: Oh he just *thinks* he’s Ronnie.......that’s God.
Well that wasn't worth the wait
Wow! Steve "Interesting" Davis. 😜
His jokes are as funny as watching paint dry
Still more entertaining than your youtube comments though.
@@AD-kv9kj dont be cheeky lol😛👍
Yeah, stick to the snooker Steve :-)
Funny joke, but unfortunately the line before the punchline took the edge off the actual punchline
true, could have just left it at "god", rest was superfluous.
It's crazy back in the day I hated Davis as player now a think hes a great character I was a big Jimmy n hendry fan
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.
😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴
Oh dear, sadly the crowd, wanting to, begging to please, laughing sycophantically at every word, totally ruined the punchline. 😖😂😂😂😂😂 wankers!
try and be a bit kinder in future mate
Pity the cloud wasn't shaped like a prick.
Why did you want to sit on it?
@@byronlovelace8379 No but clearly you do as you seem to think about
Steavy baby, stick to your snooker mate..
Wow that was terrible