Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’stard (Sky Documentaries)
Rating: Four out of five stars
The former U.S. chat show host Dick Cavett, now 89, uploaded a clip to his endlessly entertaining YouTube archive channel this month, of the British actor Robert Shaw in conversation.
Shaw, star of Jaws and father-of-ten, was a notorious ladies’ man, married three times.
He revealed to Cavett how he knew ‘within two seconds’ whether a woman would go to bed with him: ‘If they like you, they laugh at your jokes.’
That slice of cad’s wisdom might well supply the missing key to comedy star Rik Mayall’s complex personality, one that his
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