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Where geeks are the ‘popular kids’

ImprovBoston aims for comedy fest with smarts

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 18, 2012

Performers are coming from all over the country for the sixth annual Geek Week, beginning Wednesday at ImprovBoston. The festival has grown popular enough that there are two or three shows each night on both of the venue’s stages. The comedy delves into the obsessive nature of the geek mind as well as the pop culture that engrosses it: comic books, “Star Trek,” science fiction, and horror movies.

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