Show Off

Aubrey Piper is a clerk who has never met a conversation he couldn't make about himself. He struts through life as if Fortune herself owes him a favor, sponging off his wife's family while grandiose schemes collapse in his wake. He burns down her brother's laboratory, wrecks a car he's unlicensed to drive, and talks his way off a radio show by insulting the sponsor. Yet somehow his confidence never cracks. As Aubrey and Amy move in with her long-suffering parents, his peculiar gift for catastrophe accelerates toward chaos. George Kelly's 1924 comedy dissects the American show-off with surgical precision: the man who has nothing to show for himself, yet cannot stop showing off. It's razor-sharp, uncomfortably funny, and proves that some people are too full of themselves to ever hit bottom.