There's a place where you can see live stand-up comedy every other week, and there's no risk of getting COVID-19. You don't need to wear a mask. You can see a bunch of comedians in the same place, clapping and laughing at each other.

Comedians including Jenny Yang, Judah Friedlander, Yedoye Travis and Ify Nwadiwe performed there. The place is Jenny Young's comedy show Comic Time, set on a remote island in the video game Animal Time. This is a business type of game. The premise is to clean up and organize a desert island, gradually turn it from a wilderness to a small village, and then do the ACBellsBuy transaction with the villagers. It wasn't designed to allow many people to communicate with each other, and while you can visit other people's islands, the chat system is cumbersome and unbearably slow. One person's island can only receive eight online visitors at a time. There is no reason it should be a "good place for comedy".

Young has set up a comedy club in her virtual animal walking through the basement, a room with brick walls, a microphone and a small lounge next to it. Then she began working on Comedy Crossing, a live show that combined zoom calling with animal Crossing aesthetics.

The way it works is this: Yang invited other has "animal crossing" accounts comedian to her island, in the basement of her lovely comedy club presided over their performances, and then put her nintendo switch back to the message flow to a computer screen, there are more viewers can watch live. When it was their turn to perform, each comedian took their game characters onto a small stage and stood behind a microphone. When comedians perform their material overscale, they can also manipulate their game characters. Cute critters cross people's reactions, such as expressions of joy or fear, along with joke Settings and punch lines. Yedoye Travis were particularly good at this in their first show, where some comedians used in-game magic sticks to incorporate complex, instantaneous costume changes into their Animal Crossing Items.

When a comedian performs, the other comedians in the room can respond with applause, frustration, or other silly, encouraging reactions. For Zoom viewers, the whole experience is like watching a cartoon version of a talk show. "It makes you wonder," Yang said.

Yang is not sure how long she will continue to produce, but she is excited by the success of the first two films and is looking forward to continuing.