Durham recalibrates by relationship to the transformation. Downtown rooms fill with the tech-corridor crowd who arrived with the research triangle money, while Ninth Street hosts the artists who discovered the warehouse district. Brightleaf Square draws the Duke overflow. American Tobacco operates in its own bubble. Walltown adds the working-class roots the development hasn't reached. The comedy here navigates populations that share a city but experience different Durhams. Open mics become the rare space where the new money and the old neighborhood sit together. The comics who honor both find audiences across every renovation.