Transcript: Profile: Comedy club at a Maryland middle school

LINDA WERTHEIMER
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
05-16-2004
Profile: Comedy club at a Maryland middle school

Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

Lots of schools have extracurricular clubs--chess, math, drama--but students at a school in Maryland have something unusual, a comedy club. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports from E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring.

NEDA ULABY reporting:

A comedy club seems a natural fit for the absurd sensibilities of early adolescence. It's the brainchild of Harry Bagdasian, a playwright and dad who started the club when his daughters were students at the school. Ten years and dozens of performances later, a harried Bagdasian is in ...

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