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).
Huey P. Newton was sitting in the audience. Richard Pryor announces this fact to the audience but Newton is not actually shown in the film. Director Jeff Margolis later explained that he had no cameras aimed at the audience, but would have had he known Pryor was going to introduce him.
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.