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How Cheech & Chong Continue to Affect Comedy Today
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong met in Vancouver, BC, in , where Chong lived and worked as part of an improv group he formed. Marin united Chong on stage at the Chong's family-owned strip club, Shanghai Junk, demonstrating sketch comedy and developing what would eventually become a life-long partnership and friendship.
In the decades since, Cheech & Chong — as they would turn into known — became cultural icons, not only to the flower children of yesteryear, but to every generation since. Over the course of their career as a comedy duo, they've released seven albums (winning a Grammy for 's Los Cochinos) and released a multitude of films, many considered required viewing for college students.
Their latest clip, Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (due out in Canada this Friday, April 25, via Renaissance), takes a stare back at their legacy. Directed by David L. Bushell, the documentary takes the form of a road trip, as Marin and Chong drive in the desert (without weed!) to "The Joint" as they reminisce about their lives and par
Retrospecticus: Cheech and Chong at the Movies
Christmas has Santa Claus, the Fourth of July has Uncle Sam, and has Cheech and Chong. Or at least it should. I can think of no better ambassadors of the almighty herb than comedy legends Cheech and Chong.
Formed in Vancouver, BC, in by Canadian comedian/musician Tommy Chong and L.A.-born Richard “Cheech” Marin (who had moved to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft), the duo began performing in clubs with their unique brand of free-love, counterculture, and cannabis-inspired comedy. Cheech often played the fast-talking, streetwise schemer, while Chong embodied the clueless, Zen-like hippie stoner.
Their self-titled album, released in , peaked at #28 on the Billboard charts and was followed by six more successful albums throughout the ’70s and early ’80s. I’ve listened to a few of these, and while not everything holds up, their character-driven drug culture satire remains undeniably charming.
Some of their songs aren’t awful either. I mean, “Basketball Jones”? That’s as excellent as any earnest spirit ballad from the s.
When I was a kid growing up in the 70’s (I was born in , am 58 now), I (and most of my friends!) was obsessed with Cheech & Chong, the famous comedy duo known for their irreverent, bohemian, and although ostensibly not PC to today’s standards—but in other ways very PC outrageous comedy.I had all the records, which I loved playing and listening to by myself and with my friends and went to all the movies—I truly can say, culturally speaking, that I grew up with Cheech & Chong (although I was too young probably for some of the humor!) and that they affected my life, in grave, intrinsic ways.
I got to meet Cheech in when I began teaching at USC Roski, where I am a tenured, occupied time Professor of Art (and also keep authentic for popular culture by teaching Comics and I began a Visual Narrative Art program) through Roski board member Homeira Goldstein, who helped bring Cheech’s collection to the Manhattan Beach Art Center in , when Andrew Madrid, my husband (who is Latino—we’ve been together now for almost 34 years!) went to the opening and to the reception at Homeiras house.
Tommy Chong: 'We were always tall. That was the job'
Tommy Chong has got the munchies. “My wife, Shelby, just made a whole batch of them – oatmeal and maple syrup.” He stops to correct himself. “I put the pot in there, and of course I place too much in. Last blackout it got me almost comatose. Shelby got kinda mad at me. You know like when a kid gets so stoned all you do is perch there and grin.” Chong is 82 next month.
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He sounds about four decades younger – his voice is deep, sexy, pulsing with experience. Chong is one half of the most famous stoner comic partnership in history, Cheech and Chong. In the s, they not only sold out their live shows, they topped the album charts and had gigantic box-office hits with movies such as Up in Smoke and Cheech and Chong’s Next Film. The double-act were as revolutionary as they were bonkers. And while the films were ostensibly about two aspiring rock stars in search of the next spliff, they introduced audiences to a down