Fairbanks darkness and light create two different comedy scenes. Winter's twenty-hour nights pack Downtown rooms with audiences desperate for entertainment—cabin fever makes generous crowds. Summer's midnight sun scatters attention, harder to fill rooms when daylight never ends. College hosts the year-round grinders. Goldstream draws the seasonal overflow. Hamilton Acres and Graehl fill the gaps. Alaska's extremes teach survival comedy: dark-season audiences need laughter like medicine, light-season audiences need convincing to come inside. Read the sun, and you'll know which show to book.