First live stand-up concert to be released as a feature film, and taking into account Pryor's language and topics, was considered to be a real risk. According to Wikipedia, the movie was the "first full-length, feature movie consisting of only stand-up comedy, often hailed as one of the seminal and most influential recorded stand-up performances of the modern era".
First of three Richard Pryor live concert feature films. The others are Richard Pryor... Here and Now (1983), and Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982).
Filmed live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California on December 29, 1978.
First full-length concert feature film of Richard Pryor, as Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin' (1971) had been a 48-minute short.