George Kelly's celebrated comedy "The Show Off" centers on Aubrey Piper, a supremely self-assured braggart and blowhard who talks a big game about his prospects while barely holding down a railroad clerk's job, much to the despair of his long-suffering wife Amy and her sharp-tongued mother. Aubrey's outrageous boasting and shameless self-confidence generate constant friction in the Fisher household, yet the play's comic engine runs on the family's grudging inability to get rid of him, and on the surprising ways his bluster occasionally pays off. Kelly's satire of American blowhardism and domestic patience made "The Show Off" one of the most enduring comedies of the 1920s, and it remained a staple of community theater programming for decades.

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