[3] Before the show started, The BusBoys performed "(The Boys Are) Back in Town" over a montage of pre-show footage of Murphy traveling with his road crew.

Other topics that he addresses are family parties (his cookout skit featuring a humanoid cryptid for an aunt-in-law and an uncle who ignites the whole backyard in an attempt to work the grill) parental discipline (his shoe-throwing mothers monologue), Michael Jackson, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, racism, Reaganomics, gay people (including a routine depicting "The Honeymooners" Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton as same-sex sweethearts), AIDS, and Marian Anderson.

After his routine, the video ends with Murphy and his road crew walking to his dressing room while the credits roll.

The special received positive reviews and is widely cited by comedians as a seminal stand-up work.

I'm feeling like a fucking old guy watching Sam Kinison or Andrew Dice Clay.