Des Moines distributes by employer and ambition level. East Village rooms fill with insurance professionals who chose stability, while Drake hosts the students chasing different futures. Downtown draws the state-worker crowd. Ingersoll operates in its own bubble. The comedy here navigates populations that share a city but measure success differently. Open mics become the rare space where the career-track and the dream-chasers sit together. The comics who honor both the people who built lives here and the people still deciding find audiences grateful someone understood that Iowa's capital contains multitudes.