Caldwell separates by which suburb you remember. Central Avenue rooms fill with families who've been here since the Grover Cleveland days, while West Caldwell hosts the commuters who discovered the train works. Fairmount draws the established residents. Roseland Park operates in its own bubble. The comedy here navigates populations that share a town but experience different relationships to the city they left. Open mics become neutral ground where the rooted and the arrived sit together. The comics who honor Caldwell's specific Essex County identity find audiences grateful someone knew the difference from the suburbs next door.