Adam Carolla really wants people to know that he hates show business. And Los Angeles. And the road. And his audience. And any younger performer who gained popularity with the help of the Internet or social media.
Those, at least, are the impressions left by “Road Hard,” a sour comedy starring Mr. Carolla, who with Kevin Hench also wrote and directed it. Mr. Carolla’s wide-ranging résumé includes writing, voice-over work, talk-show appearances and a popular podcast, but it’s light on acting, and he shows why here, proving himself unable to perform the difficult trick of making a loathsome character sympathetic.
He’s Bruce Madsen, a comic who once had a hit television show but is now reduced to doing stand-up in small clubs and being bitter that fame often doesn’t last. Perhaps he wouldn’t be struggling if he had an act that contained something other than crude jokes, or if he prepared for his performances, or if he didn’t walk into every audition for another TV role with a giant chip on his shoulder.
Bruce, in short, is inflexible, unable to adapt to new comic forms and, on a personal level, thoroughly unlikable. So of course in the end he gets the girl (Diane Farr). Mr. Carolla finds roles for, among others, Jay Mohr, David Alan Grier, Howie Mandel and Larry Miller, who does a particularly humiliating turn as Bruce’s vile agent.
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