Ketchikan toggles between cruise-ship transience and fishing-town permanence. Downtown rooms fill with tourists passing through on summer itineraries, while Bear Valley hosts the families who've worked these waters for generations. Ward Cove draws the working-class roots. Saxman and Mountain Point add the community layers. The comedy here navigates the tension between seasonal tourism and year-round survival. Open mics become the space where the visitors and the permanent sit together. The comics who honor Ketchikan's dual economy find audiences grateful someone saw the working town behind the gift shops—the one that stays when the ships leave.