This past Sunday, Public Radio International‘s Studio 360 aired a segment which they described as being about one of the more unexpected results of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans: a thriving comedy scene.
Stand-up, open mics and sketch comedy acts such as the Red Light District Variety Show have have been cropping up all over a city which has yet to see even half its population return.
Listen to an MP3 of this story here:
http://audio.wnyc.org/studio/studio012607c.mp3