BROOKLYN —
“I don’t factor in white people when I make comedy,” says Fools Circle founder Jonathan Teklai.
The Fools Circle comedy series is back.
The boundary-breaking experiment initiated by Jonathan Teklai with party-like basement shows returned to Prospect Park with six comedians performing for a largely Black audience of several hundred people.
Its ongoing goal is to push the limits on who does standup—and how.
“The institution of comedy is changing,” says Teklai, with a nod toward the unraveling of the industry’s racial and gender constraints, a movement accelerated by the pandemic.
