Missoula toggles between UM academic transience and Missoula County mountain-town permanence. Downtown rooms fill with students cycling through on four-year rotations, while Hip Strip hosts the artists who chose to stay. Reserve Street draws the suburban overflow. Southgate and Rattlesnake add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between campus rotation and Garden City stability. Open mics become neutral ground where both timelines converge. Comics who grasp Missoula's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the city outlasts every graduation while the Clark Fork keeps flowing through.