Claremont divides by which economy you survived. Downtown rooms fill with families who weathered the mill closures, while Pleasant Street hosts the artists who discovered the rent gap. Lower Village draws the working-class roots. Maple Grove operates in its own bubble. The comedy here navigates populations that share a town but carry different economic scars. Open mics become neutral ground where the people who stayed through the hard years and the people who arrived after sit together. The comics who honor both Claremonts—the one that struggled and the one rebuilding—find audiences grateful someone understood.