Joey Green (formerly Greenberg) has been a stand-up comic for nearly fifty years. Now, at 72, he is working the condo circuit in Florida struggling with an audience that either cannot hear him or is falling asleep. To make matters worse, his ex-wife, Arlene, now deceased five years, has returned to help him cope with the news that he is dying. In a visit to his adult children, Joey tries to make his life of missteps right, and in his own mind he does, even as in the words of his son Howard, he remains a pain in the ass, then, now and forever.