LA Connection Comedy Theatre

Parents can sign budding performers up for a Comedy Improv for Kids workshop at the LA Connection Comedy Theatre.

Kids get to learn, rehearse, and, eventually - after about six to eight weeks - perform with other aspiring comics once a week in front of a live, paying audience. Performers even get to keep 25% of the take.

Classes are offered to kids ages five to 18 on Saturdays and Sundays; the cost is $100 per month for all classes. Tickets to attend performances cost $7.

Birthday parties at LA Connection Comedy Theatre cost $350 for two hours (for up to 60 kids), and include a host, one hour in a party room (family provides the refreshments, and the host helps to serve them), then an hour of performing by four adult professionals who engage the kids in different games.