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Provocative: Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall in Drop Dead Fred Credit: Alamy On May 22 1991, American television saw an unlikely meeting of two great talents. The chat show host David Letterman’s guest was the British comedian Rik Mayall. He may have been a household name in his home country but Mayall was practically unknown, save to MTV viewers familiar with The Young Ones, in the United States. Their encounter made for excruciatingly embarrassing, car-crash television. Mayall had been invited onto Late Night with David Letterman to promote his new film Drop Dead Fred, his attempt at cracking the American market. Matters soon went awry. Letterman behaved throughout as if Mayall’s presence was a tiresome obligation that he had to suffer through, playing to the audience for incredulous laughs. And an obviously nervous Mayall, introduced incredulously as ‘one of England’s most popular comedians’, barely restrained himself from swearing, made off-colour jokes about fires in

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