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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 thats 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. :) ) 80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES: * Snooker ( http://tinyurl.com/8l2xu ) * Steve Davis ( http://tinyurl.com/kax5v ) * Robin of Sherwood ( http://tinyurl.com/n8zqn ) * Clannad ( http://tinyurl.com/gvm9k )

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