A young man lives in San Antonio, TX where he grew up. He drives one of the Riverwalk boat tours, but really he’s trying to be a stand-up comedian. He tries out jokes during his boat tours but the tourists never get his humor. He’s in love with a waitress in one of the restaurants he passes. At night, he does 5-minute sets at various comedy clubs in San Antonio. He lives with his parents. He feels like he’s going nowhere. He’s drinking too much. One night, he’s totally drunk after a bad set and he gets picked up by a fancy Texas socialite who invites him back to her place. He decides to go because, “why not?” but it turns out she owns an illegal gaming site where people can pay thousands of dollars to hunt endangered animals. He gets lost on the site and has run-ins with a tiger and an ostrich and other such animals until he finds his way out. This is a wake up call for him. He curbs his drinking, asks out the waitress and gets rejected, and his comedy improves. He’s invited to host for a week at a local comedy club and George Lopez is the headliner. George Lopez sees his act and after the week tells him he’s really funny. George Lopez encourages him to move out to L.A. if he’s serious about comedy because there’s a limit in San Antonio. No one in his life supports this decision except for George Lopez. He figures, “what do I have to lose?” and so he moves out to L.A. The movie ends with him arriving in a dumpy apartment but he’s smiling. He is at a new place, literally and figuratively, and he feels he’s made the right decision.