Spiraling right into a mid-life disaster and feeling disconnected from his household, Ben Marcus, a reality-TV editor, thinks he can solely be joyful by fulfilling his dream of changing into knowledgeable comic. Ben posts his stand-up routines to YouTube, and the movies fall flat. Then his tweener son posts Ben miserably failing on a house enchancment venture, and far to his teenage daughter’s dismay, it goes viral, launching Ben's social-media profession as Selfie Dad. Though he shortly turns into an award-winning phenom, no quantity of success brings Ben satisfaction. By his friendship with a younger coworker, Mickey, Ben finds the key to a contented household . . . along with his Bible in a single hand, and his cellphone within the different.