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Road Hard Rating: Director: Adam Carolla Writing Credit: Kevin Hench Cast: Adam Carolla Genre: Comedy Duration: 97 minutes Release date: Apr 10, 2015 Synopsis: A stand-up comedian tries to get off the road

Here’s a comedy about a stand-up comedian trying to get out of the comedy business. And here’s my advice to him: Don’t quit your day job. You’re good at it, and it serves the movie.

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Adam Carolla, who co-wrote and co-directed Road Hard, also stars as Bruce Madsen, a 50-year-old comic who once co-hosted The Bro Show with a fellow funnyman, now a late-night talk show star. That also describes Carolla, who used to do The Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel. But while Carolla has a decent string of credits since then, Bruce has been forced back on the stand-up circuit, which he hates. (The opening montage of airline indignities, hotel buffets and nondescript stages and backstages makes it clear why.)

The movie’s plot feels one-dimensional — Bruce meets friends for coffee; Bruce meets his agent; Bruce meets an annoying person on a plane, etc. — and the best bits are probably the scenes of him doing what he hates most.

The rest feels like a pilot for a Curb Your Enthusiasm knockoff, except that instead of remaining a committed curmudgeon, Bruce meets a lady (Diane Farr) and goes all goo-goo-eyed: “Comedy’s about tearing things apart, and I’d like to start putting things together.” The result is an amusing enough time-waster — speaking of which, stay seated through the credits for extra stand-up bits.

Road Hard opens April 10 at the Carlton in Toronto.