Julian Clary as The Joan Collins Fan Club enlists the help of an audience member.
During the Dublin Millennium Theatre Festival, The Joan Collins Fan Club, (English comedian Julian Clary), performs at the Edmund Burke Hall in Trinity College Dublin. Minus his whippet mongrel sidekick Fanny the Wonder Dog, Julian Clary is joined on stage by pianist 'The Lovely Russell' Churney.
With deliberate high-camp flare, Julian Clary plucks business analyst Jacob from the front row of the audience to participate in a mock scene from the US soap opera ‘Dynasty’.
Under Julian Clary's idiosyncratic direction, Jacob tackles John Forsyth’s role of Blake Carrington,
I think you’re overacting slightly Jacob.
Julian Clary channels Joan Collins in her role of Alexis Carrington. He prepares Jacob for his final big speech which closes with Jacob lip-syncing to the 1969 hit single ‘Durham Town (The Leavin')’ by folk-singer Roger Whittaker.
This episode of ‘Nighthawks’ was broadcast on 10 November 1988.
The item is introduced by continuity announcer Bláithín Keaveney played by actress Michelle Houlden.
'Nighthawks' was a programme that was set in a bar cafe where the presenter Shay Healy was also the proprietor. The content was a mixture of comedy sketches, interviews, music performances and music videos.
‘Nighthawks’ was broadcast between 1988 and 1992 and went out three nights a week.
