Oshkosh channels between EAA aviation-event transience and Winnebago County manufacturing permanence. Main Street rooms fill with visitors chasing air-show spectacle, while Downtown hosts the families who've worked the factories for generations. South Side draws the working-class energy. UW campus and Sawyer County add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between annual-event chaos and year-round stability. Open mics become neutral ground where both timelines converge. Comics who grasp Oshkosh's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the city keeps its overall-town soul while the planes arrive each summer.