Jenny is the creator and host of “Comedy Crossing” a hit standup comedy show held inside the Animal Crossing video game and watched live in the funnest Zoom meeting this side of the pandemic. During the height of the pandemic, “Comedy Crossing” raised nearly $40,000 from audience donations for #BlackLivesMatter-related causes and funds. In May, 2020 Jenny was a featured performer in the Comedy Central “Covid Is No Joke” comedy special. The Hollywood Reporter featured Jenny’s March, 2020 satirical video rebutting Andrew Yang’s plea for Asian Americans to fight anti-Asian racism by being “more American.”
Jenny has created digital videos totaling over 80 million views at JennyYang.TV and with Buzzfeed, Comedy Central, Fusion, Funny or Die and Cracked.com. Between 2012 and 2018, she has produced over ninety sold-out shows for the first-ever, mostly female, Asian American stand up comedy tour, “Disoriented Comedy.” Jenny is also the founder and festival director of “The Comedy Comedy Festival: A Comedy Festival,” a comedy festival showcasing the best in Asian American comedic talent, which ran from 2014-2018.
