I Can’t Go On
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- I Can’t Go On
This is a true story. This is the story of Adam Leslie. Comedian. Crackhead. Criminal. This is the Raging Bull of comedy. This is I Can't Go On.
I Can't Go On is the story of the almost rise and the precipitous fall of a comedian who never quite made it. It is a comedy that will make you cry and a tragedy that will make you laugh. It is a story of a modern American man but with the ancient themes of bad parenting, shocking acts, fatal flaws, dark destinies, wounds that can't be healed, fate that can't be changed.
For every Jerry Seinfeld, or Larry David and their monumental success there is an Adam Leslie and his monumental failure. For every Jim Carrey and Robin Williams who burn very close to the flame there is an Adam Leslie who is consumed by it. For every Richard Pryor, a comedic genius who battles his demons and triumphs there is an Adam Leslie, a comedian who battles his demons and is defeated by them.
I Can't Go On is a journey into the darkness of one man illuminated only by a single spotlight on a stage. But it is a darkness we all recognize. Not a story of a hero but of a flawed mortal.
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I went to high school w Adam. Kept in touch with him in the 80s. He was always happy and a kind soul. Rest in Peace ❤
I’m so happy I kept watching after the part about stealing jokes. Well, maybe “happy” isn’t the best word. Thanks for making this. Powerful doc.
This is profound, Larry. There's a comment someone posted about rejecting others' love. It's something universal, the relative affect of it all depends on the demons that haunt you. As a comedian, as well as a child of addicts, I find Adam Leslie's story hauntingly relatable. Thank you.
Glad you survived. Adam’s demons were unusually real and he was born into tragedy and could never escape. .
Still thinking about this mini documentary days after watching it about this comedian who lied, cheated, and flamed out in destitution but wasn’t without that spark we all recognize in those who enliven us with creativity as alternate means of interpreting the human experience.
Adam’s person is so familiar and close for anyone in comedy and entertainment, whether on the margins or even at the top of the “game” because Adam was the embodiment of that toxic stew of trauma and the reactionary survival coping mechanism that is vanity that the lucky ones can pull from or make beauty from without being consumed. Reflexively, he is measured by what he did not attain in showbusiness but that is the capitalism talking, the real tragedy is all the pain that had nowhere healthy to disperse outside of the marketplace. He seemingly bought into the depraved, didn’t seem to make it outside of his early wounds.
So many layers to a person’s suffering and their behaviors can be interpreted with personal and societal reasonings but ultimately watching this piece about Adam one is left with the grave recognition that we are them too. Anyway, wanted to share I was moved by it and how the people’s medium (albeit Big Tech) of RUclips cradles the experience in such a realer way than if it had been put on a streamer. Reading Larry’s description below it is moving too. A searing work
Great stuff Larry. Well done, Adam was a trip.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is fantastic
Thank you!
This feels like the fourth verse in Castles Made of Sand by Jimi Hendrix.
Devastating documentary 💯👏
Thank you.
This is so incredibly sad. He's telling all these stories and he's so impressed by them, but its just tragic and depressing. He clearly couldn't just be in his own skin and was unwilling to find another way of living. It's amazing he made it to the age he did. Addicts have a good time for a bit, then one day they wake up and realise during that party everyone walked away, or died, and they're alone. Yeah, it takes hard work to deal with addiction, but ending like this is a deterrent I hope.
He was in and out of rehab so many times and eventually was ‘gaming’ the rehab places. In some sense, he was doomed.
@@LarryCharlesProjects have you any insight into what made him like this? There's a level of such arrogance to it, destroying himself despite being loved by others yet rejecting it consistently in favour of kicks. I'm a recovering addict myself and I can understand to a point but he blew it when he had such opportunity
Wow, talk about driving down a boulevard of dreams in a nightmare machine. I knew an "Adam Leslie" from the Pacific Palisades...well done.
Really interesting film Larry. Everyone in comedy knows an Adam Leslie. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you.
human tragedy terribly sad
All too common unfortunately. Thank you for watching.
Did this guy have no friends? Over the years he worked with 100s of comics. He didn't have a single actual friend among them?
He had many friends. And they all tried to help him numerous times. And tragically, he burned every last one of them until one by one, they all gave up.
It's a compelling film, but a few talking heads telling some anecdotes would have made it even more interesting.
Hard life. With small moments of joy. 🎬
“Hurt people. Hurt people.”
Perhaps a better thumbnail to help viewers into the material. 💙