Overland Park filters between Kansas City metropolitan gravity and Johnson County affluent-suburb identity. Downtown rooms fill with families who chose deliberate distance from the city, while Metcalf Avenue hosts the commuters who work across the state line. 119th Street draws the newer developments. Blue Valley and Leawood-adjacent add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between metro proximity and master-planned autonomy. Open mics become the space where both identities converge. Comics who grasp Overland Park's specific position find audiences relieved someone recognized the city cultivates its own character while the corporate campuses anchor everything.