The Comedy Club is a creative after school theater program that enables sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to annually create and perform an original comedy revue using a "Saturday Night Live" format. Written by students or club leaders, all of the comic sketches are based on student-generated ideas. They draw from their own experiences to develop sketches about bullies, parents, teachers, fads, fashions, school dances, testing, computer games, TV shows, movies, report cards, siblings, and gossip.
In September 2007 the group began rehearsals for it's 13th production.
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AMERICA’S NEXT TOP (BOY) MODEL NOW IN PRINT
Students’ Original Comic Material Published
A collection of 22 TV parody and comedy sketches by Lee Comedy Club Alumni Rachel Solomon, Leah Solomon and Sara Mozersky are now available to schools and youth groups around the world. Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Service, renowned publisher of plays and musicals for school and youth group productions has just published their collected work under the title “America’s Next Top (boy) Model and Other Comic Sketches.” This is the first collection published that is written entirely by students according to Ted Zapel, Vice President of the publishing company.
Comedy sketches included in the collection are "America's Next Top (boy) Model", "Comedy Club Idol", "Why Can't You Be More Like Your Sister?", "LOST", "Battle of the Blondes", "Rude Cell Phone Guy - At The Movies", "Model Mania", “Ambush Makeover", and more. These twenty-two sketches were written for and first performed by the Lee Comedy Club, the popular after school program at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Wheaton, Maryland. All of this material was written while Rachel, Leah and Sara were students at Lee and members of the Lee Comedy Club, or later when the girls were in high school and were volunteer assistants with the program.
Rachel is now a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Leah Solomon and Sara Mozersky are both attending Northwood High School. Both Leah and Sara continue to work as assistants to the directors at the Lee Comedy Club and will be participating in the Comedy Club at Northwood – the new extension of the Comedy Club program lead by co-founder Harry M. Bagdasian.
Scripts generated by members and leaders of the Lee Comedy Club are replicated around the world when published by Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Services – a unique occurrence considering this is a middle school performance group. Twelve collections of comic material are currently in print and have been leased from the publisher over 3,000 times by schools and youth groups in every state of the US, throughout Canada and in Germany, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.
More information about the Lee Comedy Club can be found at www.ourlaughingmatters.com or by contacting Club Co-Founder and Director Harry M. Bagdasian at hbagdasian@aol.com. To purchase copies or inquire about performance rights, contact Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Service at www.contemporarydrama.com.
This year’s Lee Comedy Club show will be performed Thursday May 1 and Friday May 2 at 7:30 PM at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Wheaton, MD.