World Doubles(1986) Alex Higgins Sings!

Let's take a quick break from Alex's 1988 Grand Prix Semi-Final to have a belly laugh at the impromptu sing and dance routine he performed during the post-match interview following his team's win against Rex Williams/Graham Miles in the Hofmeister World Doubles in December 1986.
Baked a Cake has never been so expertly performed!
I will resume the Grand Prix 1988 uploads very soon.

[@kevanbrown7620]

It was brilliant Watching Alex Higgins and Jimmy White in the 1980s. They were the most exciting player's to watch. Back then Alex and Jimmy would smoke and drink lager while playing in all tournaments, not to mention the powder they took behind the scenes. The Hurricane and the Whirlwind. 2 legends.

[@StevieJ72]

lovely clip - just the good ole boys, never meanin no harm.......

[@gaywest4298]

What a legend. Never be another Hurricane Higgins.

[@matimus100]

An Alcoholic what a legend 🤡

[@brightonmart]

An absolute classic, this still makes me laugh.

[@scottandrewhorne4655]

Alex has a touch of the Frank Spencer about him right at the end of that cake cake cake ohhhh betty lol

[@JTHRBDNE]

jimmy white looks like Freddy mercury crossed with Edward scissor hands lol

[@KS-kb4zt]

Micheal Nichols dont exaggerate

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Yup ....................... And Alex ended up looking like Freddie Kruger with that hat lol ;)

[@jaynestag95]

Thank you Alex for being you. With a great personality....sad how addiction took him. Love hearing him sing. 147 is my idea of heaven.😊🏅

[@paddy9i99]

If I knew you were coming "I WOULD HAVE TAKEN SOME COKE"

[@allister1964]

I remember watching this at the time. Alex was so unpredictable, and inspired me to take up snooker in late 1978.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

This was filmed in 1986 Dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@cjns5253]

He won his first masters in 1978 against cliff thorburn

[@noelmadden1920]

After watching Neil Robertson take over 4 minutes to choose a shot last night it's nice to remember that snooker once had characters!

[@oscoe]

All sports had characters! Sports and music and culture has become sterile corporate anodine……as a species we are losing our personality. It’s sad

[@brendanculleton6368]

Absolute legends the two of em, nothing like that nowadays

[@Voxac100b]

He was the man who brought snooker into its glory days of the 70s & 80s. Have a look at the clip of him with John Virgo potting a very difficult pink and then a black with one hand - amazing.

[@PomBare]

Can you imagine a Stephen Hendry or Matthew Stevens getting up infront of Hazel and performing a song and dance like that? Without Ronnie I don't think I could bare to watch snooker these days

[@edmundpower1250]

12 years later he's still going

[@craigsutherland4726]

Ronnie is a tool that tries to be like Higgins

[@tommytommytommytommyrobins496]

Alex higgins, nothing else needs to be said, rip legend🙏🙏🙏

[@ribhkum]

now that i think about it alex really did bring snooker from small snooker halls to the world stage !!

[@liverpix]

Alex - an all round entertainer,lol.

[@BadgerBotherer1]

He could have had a second career as a song-and-dance man, judging by that performance.

[@jimmydoonz]

hahaha they are brilliant

[@markchurchill6579]

Alex did it his way. Drank, fought, gambled, shagged, lived the high life and enjoyed it, just imagine him and bestie together 😜 Legends the pair of em RIP

[@rootykazooty351]

Couple of twats TBH.

[@davidgladwin4954]

Always devouring every ball higgins

[@maratonlegendelenemirei3352]

Make room for Olly Reed.

[@LfcFanGav]

Jimmy was definitely on the Colombian marching powder. Red eyes and sniffing his hooter are a dead give away 2 legends all the same

[@RationalThinker1859]

"You really can never tell with Alec can you." It's Alex, Dickie, Alex...

[@npc3po301]

Alex -"Wurld dubbles? well ayle havver dubble vodka and Jems'll havver dubble wheskeh, thanks bebe"

[@paulwarrington1966]

Noticed the sniff from Jimmy... Both stoned in this interview. In those days it would never have occurred to anyone watching that they might be. Far more innocent times...

[@irishking1414]

Yes he is amazing.

[@gab99]

this should have been done in a bar! Jimmy looks like Jimmy Page of Led Zep!

[@pb6270]

Jimmy Page looks quite a bit like Higgins too oddly

[@vr120]

They were drunk or stoned lol. Would be awesome if those two were still around in the big tournies of today. Alex made snooker big. So dont go calling him an idiot

[@callumrobertson3218]

They were certainly on coke.

[@rebeccaryan3621]

they weren't stoned or drunk so don't you be an idiot

[@Skidoo22]

this is when snooker was snooker.

[@DavieCooper-zz4kh]

If there's a song that sums up Alex and Jimmy perfectly, it has to be cigarettes and alcohol by Oasis

[@McElhinney65]

If I Knew You Were coming I'd have brought some coke, brought some coke, brought some coke...

[@bengoddin9974]

Legend alex higgins

[@stansirlmkhope2312]

3 great missed guys

[@juliepownall2000]

Legends👍👌

[@locsman]

alex is a fucking legend

[@MrSHAUN9965]

2 legends

[@alanmeires]

They look so young

[@gushing123]

brilliant goose great memories he liked his drink

[@sikhman100]

billy casper u are a legend i almost died laughing and its 4am ffs

[@paddy519]

Baked a cake has never been so appropriate. Hurricane is baked....baked..... baked-baked!

[@terryowings9469]

lol

[@therealawakener7]

If he'd have eaten the fucking cake he'd still be with us. Nevertheless what a legend. The very best ever period!

[@AD-kv9kj]

Or if he'd not snorted a ton of cocaine, smoked crack, 80 cigarettes a day and got drunk as hell all the time. That might have helped.

[@darraghomalley1896]

Just fucking classic

[@mattgwiltmusic]

Fucking brilliant

[@jimmybenyoucef4416]

0:34 OMG 😂

[@jemedemande5166]

Who does Alex think he's kidding "eating Buns with a load of Coke up his nose" :-)

[@zarrow50]

Did Dickie call Alex Alec at the end?

[@GEGBoxing]

They’ve had a David Vine in the Ilya Nastase’s.

[@growlerthe2nd712]

Jimmy and Alex were blood 🩸 brothers or should that be beer 🍺 brothers 😎

[@drinkwater319]

Bang in the middle of Jimmy's cocaine addiction, according to his biography.

[@callumrobertson3218]

Yup he looks out of it.

[@irishpride9867]

I'd say the both of them were dabbling

[@forgive7449]

coke ! coke ! coke ! coke ! 😏

[@nikkigeer4614]

Jimmy white the Steven Gerrard of snooker

[@johnblack9298]

Yeahhhh Of course

[@GEGBoxing]

And now we’ve got Kyren Wilson. The biggest dry lunch since the shipping forecast. What has happened to snooker?

[@davidjatt3251]

fuckin hilarious!

[@Mrtruthfulspeaks]

if u look carefully jimmy hand is behind Alex chair and Alex hand is next to his crotch. it just seems like jimmy hand is next to Alex crotch when you first glance at it dont get it twisted 0:36

[@xplaybwoix]

Can somone explain the cut at 32 seconds?? Jimmy’s hand has moved to a very strange place lol

[@watchstrap1]

check jimmys hand at 0.38

[@spacecowboy006]

they are tore up!

[@vinnymcg7435]

Alex getting carried away thought he was a Hollywood Movie Star

[@richardwalker1880]

What a ledgend the Hurricane was thee greatest snooker player ever R snooker is so CRAP WITH OUT THE HURRICANE

[@chriswardmusic]

Why did Jimmy White have his hand on Alex Higgins' nuts 34 seconds into the interview? I knew they were close but that's ridiculous!

[@wibeseeker]

classic days... apart from the rocket, snooker has no real characters these days.

[@edmundpower1250]

David Vine and Alex both sadly missed

[@Billdick360]

That was Dickie Davis not David Vine.

[@BadgerBotherer1]

@@Billdick360 Davies and Vine are both missed.

[@timokautto9815]

They are drunk AND high..?

[@snookasus]

funny :)

[@ahassen1236]

One drunk the other high after a match.. can't beat it.. so much character these two offered over the years. Made snooker what it is. People that knew nothing about the sport had to find out looking at these rebels. Rebel nowadays is Ronnie. Just shows you can't be a genius entertainer and 'normal' at the same time. Doesn't work.

[@bunkerboy-hf4xh]

Funny very .

[@Coneman3]

Jimmy looks up to Alex and Alex likes the attention. I see Jimmy as an MBTI Feeler (probably ISFJ) and Alex as a Thinker (ESTJ?).

[@spleeeen4it]

was alex ever sober??

[@albernererhelge]

Of course not. He was northern Irish

[@humanforfreedom9583]

Yeah ever since hes been dead

[@simongood3]

alex and jimmy had proper styleonly ronnie comes close

[@johnblack9298]

Gotta Love The Hurricane Nobody like him

[@MoRcH786]

Lol PAUSE AT 0.35

[@watchingtelly609]

Jimmy off his kite off the smack cocaine

[@paleshelter4002]

I think the cloth is too quick today, although the training and equipment make the skills sharper

[@Voxac100b]

Agreed some of the players now have the personality of a stone.

[@redeemerl5212]

Same in every sport now

[@andywright3450]

Both look pissed eyes are glazed

[@dhollsynthmusic]

great spot, except i don't think it's an illusion...what a pair, ay?

[@lennyfoot72]

why did u watch

[@terryowings9469]

I'm not sure?

[@TJB147]

@radabminj hahahaha

[@emokiller907]

pause at 0:35 looks like jimmys feeling up alex because of the camera angle haha

[@LiamGreenhorn]

Higgins - total legend. Pity he was a complete waster too. Read his autobiography, and the biography. Very interesting and talented guy. Could have won 5/6 world titles if he had the right mentality.

[@wotsthebloodypoint]

Or the right help.

[@simongood3]

@weeswan ha ha i noticed that too looks like he' s touching alex pink ball!!!

[@frankiehere2010]

this all makes sence now jimmy white going bankrupt and the times i have seen jimmy out of his tree and it wasn't booze out of his tree he was tickig so much it had to be coke.

[@smith077906]

whatever Alex was on........................The golden age where drugs snooker and rock n roll was the norm

[@Mjolbaggar]

Cocanie a lot?

[@dhollsynthmusic]

unmistakeably coked, coked, coked.

[@nikkigeer4614]

Pair of bums

[@jambon2834]

Both in the top 10 players who’ve ever lived, what have u done