Hartford reconciles insurance-capital polish with working-class reality. Pratt Street rooms fill with corporate workers who commute from the suburbs, while West End hosts the communities who actually live here. Downtown draws the revitalization crowd. Asylum Hill keeps the neighborhood roots. The comedy here navigates the tension between the Hartford that writes policies and the Hartford that lives them. Open mics become neutral ground where the corporate and the residential sit together. The comics who honor both Hartfords find audiences grateful someone understood the city isn't just a logo on a building—it's the neighborhoods the commuters drive past.