Bloomington stratifies by relationship to the campus. Downtown rooms fill with IU students cycling through every four years, while Kirkwood Avenue hosts the townies who've watched the cycles for decades. Near West Side draws the graduate-student bubble. Bryan Park hosts the families who stayed. Near Eastside operates on its own schedule. The comedy here navigates populations that share a town but experience different timelines. Open mics become neutral ground where town and gown briefly overlap. The comics who honor both the people passing through and the people who stayed find audiences across every graduation year.