Is Stephen Hendry's Cue Named 'Sir Potsalot' | Would I Lie To You?

Stephen Hendry: "Before every World Championship final, I used to give a motivational team talk to my snooker cue, or as I called him, Sir Potsalot."
From Would I Lie to You? Series 14 Episode 2.
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[@GodotOfficial]

Chris was the MVP of this video, his quips were Lee Mack-esque

[@g-stergaming4502]

Considering it will be the same writers of script, im not surprised lol

[@Tony-vf9zu]

Mvp?

[@dazediss6629]

Stephen is a good liar, the bit about his grandma swayed everyone

[@dangermouse8466]

Well, if you're a true snooker fan, you'd have known it was a lie.

[@GagzoD82]

Nah, granny part was obviously a lie. It’s a play on sir mixalot, who had a song out late 80s or 90s and nosey a granny would know of sir mixalot, or funny enough to change his name for a cue

[@3rdhalf]

​@@GagzoD82 Sir Mixalot itself is a play on Sir Lancelot. Sir verb-a-lot was already a stock pun well before Sir Mixalot was known. Sir Mixalot merely caused them to become even more common. It was an obvious lie, but Sir Mixalot wasn't the reason.

[@johnny207]

Hendry never spoke to anyone back then, he’s hardly gonna talk to his cue.😊

[@mintysgt]

ha ha

[@davidhale8034]

Or that's why he spoke to noone 😂

[@thesoultwins72]

@johnny207........Mmm - he did when he wanted something! I was a big snooker fan back in the '80's and '90's [played in a number of amateur tournaments] and Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry came to our snooker club to play an exhibition match. When they both entered our club, Steve [Davis] immediately started greeting everyone, saying 'hello' and signing autographs etc. Meanwhile, Stephen [Hendry] just stood there silently. After a while, he looked at us all and said, 'Right - who's going to buy me a drink then?'

[@bruuhhhh]

Chris was on point here ahaha

[@rambledogs2012]

His 'lost without my stick' was a great double entendre too.

[@lukeluke7082]

If someone started this video half way through they would think hendry takes a cue with him everywhere he goes

[@Joe-ye5mc]

cue

[@JonasHamill]

This show being David's decent into madness, that really we should've seen coming from the start, but not as beautifully as this, is what makes it great, and I'm all here for it

[@benjones8594]

The man is going to end up in a psychosis ward writing MORTIMER all over the walls.

[@chunkydembry5477]

Bob Mortimer saw to that a while ago.

[@henrikhyrup3995]

Paused the video, so I haven't seen the answer. But I figure this is nonsense, becaise otherwise Phil Yates, Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson would be mentioning that non stop every time Hendry is mentioned.

[@Minimax04]

Chris is a breath of fresh air. Love him

[@calcalcal1]

The beauty of the lie is half the story was true. Henry DID have a cue from being a kid and won all his titles with it, and it DID get broken on a flight. And after it got broke he was never the same player

[@-The-Darkside]

He wasn't the same player because he stopped practicing, he talks about it all the time on his own KZbin channel.

[@user-bb3rx7mh8k]

He started to lose by better players and lost his edge, that simple

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

the cues got a lot worse ... 😅😂

[@piknick3011]

i don't get it, can you explain please

[@SmackcrackIV]

@@piknick3011queues and cues. After 9/11, security drama became the name of the game and so time spent queuing in airports grew massively

[@njoshua3265]

@@piknick3011 queues, security lines are awfully long now.

[@piknick3011]

@@njoshua3265 ahhhh hahah wow nice

[@snookerstones]

Chris is actually so good

[@duffman9]

Pure dead brilliant

[@ge1872rs]

Stephen was very serious and focused around the table with no sense of humour, there was 0% chance that he was going to be in his dressing room giving his snooker cue a pep talk 🤣

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

It’s called SIR STEPHEN LEE

[@Gobbbbb]

Chris always comes out with some fucking hilarious stuff lol

[@liamgbooth]

I see Bob Mortimer has had a lasting effect on David Mitchell

[@davidhale8034]

😂😂😂😂

[@76ToneCrome]

A snooker player and motivational speaking... There's a cruel joke in there somewhere.

[@kurt7842]

And the fact he was massively socially awkward

[@daboss3116]

Stephen will never blame his cue

[@mattmerchant3524]

How long ago were these filmed that they still have "COVID-style" seating?!

[@duncansmith86]

Jan 2021 I think…according to wiki …thought the same thing 😂

[@Jimin.Stan4Ever]

Love Stephen Hendry ❤

[@andyjay9346]

But what I want to know was that really a snooker cue signed by Ronnie O'Sullivan or was that a big pork pie too?

[@nazfrde]

Rob pronounced "snooker" the way Brits always think Americans always pronounce "snooker".

[@anomalousresult]

I think it's the welsh way of pronouncing it. Terry Griffiths and my taid pronounced it this way anyway.

[@davidhale8034]

Noone has ever given a crap how an American says snooker. Just not a thing.

[@nazfrde]

@@davidhale8034 I've seen Brits have meltdowns over it. Otherwise why would I have brought it up?

[@Squant]

@@davidhale8034 I've been watching Americans discovering and getting into snooker on KZbin. They always start out pronouncing it incorrectly and they always get comments educating them on the matter. A video or two later, they've changed the way they say it.

[@ryan_alexander]

1:41 I don't know who this bloke is but when they cut to him I fucking lost my mind before he even the the punchline

[@roadtonowhere497]

I knew it was a lie, Stephen was a single minded winning machine. He wouldn't care about or have had anytime for silliness

[@user-zl7vu6kp9h]

😂😂😂😂

[@user-cw5qp7ty9t]

I'm sorry but these lot are thick. Even if you know nothing about snooker, anyone should know that was a lie 😅

[@plebcrabslayer]

4:15 Flushed down the “cue” bend... 😏

[@truthteller99999]

Of course he doesn't call his cue Sir Potsalot. He does, however, call his right hand Sir Wanksalot.

[@leiya107]

I feel like very often the panelists lose sight of what the aim of this game is. If the aim is to let the opposing team guess wrong, surely when the story sounds or feels genuine, it must be a lie, right? Because... why would they sell a true story as true and allow the opposing team to score a point?

[@bergerniklas6647]

UK panel shows have a scoring system more mysterious than quantum entanglement. So nobody cares anymore. It is about entertainment in the end...

[@littlemisseatscrispsforbre5353]

The aim is to make people laugh. No one cares about points or winning. Its a showcase game show.

[@Interspirituality]

I’m sure you’ll pardon at least one of the contestants for “losing sight” of the aim ..

[@dielaughing73]

​@@bergerniklas6647 the scoring system of this particular game is pretty simple - one point is awarded to the winning team of each round.

[@ryanyates6761]

if you care about the scoring in this show then you need to give your head a wobble

[@Pube-Dental-Floss]

Love Stephen Hendry but never knew he could lie as well as that 😅 you think you know a man eh 😂 bravo