Unlike his acts on
Saturday Night Live, Murphy's performance was very
profane, saying the word
fuck a total of 230 times, and
shit 171 times. The show was recorded at
DAR Constitution Hall in
Washington, D.C. on August 17–18, 1983. Before the show started,
The BusBoys performed Boys Are) Back in Town" over a montage of pre-show footage of Murphy traveling with his road crew. After this concludes, Murphy is introduced, thanks The BusBoys for their opening performance, and commences his own. Among the topics Murphy addresses is the lure
ice cream trucks have on children. Once the ice cream was bought, they would sing and dance mockingly in front of kids who could not afford it. The phrase "The Ice Cream Man is coming!" from this segment was sampled by rapper
Raekwon on the 1995 single "
Ice Cream". 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,
Mick Jagger,
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. ==Reception==