Plano mediates between Dallas metropolitan gravity and Collin County corporate-campus identity. Downtown rooms fill with tech workers who transferred in for the headquarters, while Legacy West hosts the families who've been here since the farmland. Parker Road draws the suburban energy. West Plano and East Plano add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between metro proximity and master-planned autonomy. Open mics become the space where both timelines converge. Comics who grasp Plano's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the city keeps its own momentum while the DART runs to downtown Dallas.