It is only 8pm on a Saturday night in the Twenty Two nightclub on South Anne Street, Dublin 2. A crowd of 300 people are on their feet dancing to Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) by Shakira.  Moments earlier our host for the evening, comedian Andrew Stanley, had called out ‘Bingo Loco’ after three members of the audience had completed all their numbers on their cards.  Stanley calls the three people up on to the stage for a lip-sync song contest.  Eventually a young man called Kevin is judged the winner for his rendition of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart…

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