Lansing reconciles between state capital formality and factory-town working-class roots. Old Town rooms fill with government workers who transferred in, while REO Town hosts the artists navigating revitalization. East Lansing draws the MSU overflow. Downtown and Eastside add the neighborhood layers. The comedy here navigates the tension between the city that governs and the city that built cars. Open mics become neutral ground where the statehouse and the shop floor sit together. The comics who honor both Lansings find audiences grateful someone understood the capital isn't just a dome—it's the factory town that diversified.