Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
La vera storia di come l'attore comico Rudy Ray Moore abbia trovato il successo cambiando genere cinematografico e, oramai non più giovanissimo, diventando una leggenda con il personaggio di Dolemite, simbolo della Blaxploitation degli anni Settanta.