Bismarck sorts by why you're still here. Downtown rooms fill with state workers who transferred in and families who've farmed this land for generations. Cathedral District draws the artists who chose isolation deliberately. North End hosts the established residents. South Washington operates in its own bubble. The comedy here navigates populations that share a city but arrived for different reasons. Open mics become neutral ground where the stationed and the rooted sit together. The comics who honor both the people passing through and the people who stayed find audiences grateful someone noticed the difference.