Cheech and Chong: We’re Back Together Again, Man
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, who made up the Grammy Award winning weed smoking stoner comedy duo, announced that after a quarter century apart, the two will unite for a comedy tour.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Their feud finally having gone up in smoke, Cheech and Chong say they’re eager to get back on the road for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.
“We had such a legacy, such a history. We couldn’t escape it, even if we tried,” Tommy Chong told reporters at a news conference Wednesday at the Troubadour, the Los Angeles nightclub where the pair were discovered more than 35 years ago.
The duo said their “Light Up America” tour will kick off Sept. 12 in Philadelphia.
“It’s going to be very theatrical,” said Cheech Marin.
If Wednesday’s news conference was an indication, it won’t spare the pothead humor, either.
“We’re definitely still smoking,” Chong said when asked.
“I get transfusions now,” quipped Marin.
“I like the taste,” Chong said. “I’m old fashioned.”
Since thier break-up Tommy Chong has stuck with the Cheech and Chong brand of humor and directed several films. He has also appeared in such films as “Half-Baked” and had a recurring role on the former FOX hit series “That 70s Show”.
Cheech Marin by contrast has moved away from that persona taking on such roles as in movies like “From Dusk Til Dawn”(1995), “Christmas with the Kranks” (2005), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), and “Spy kids” (2001). He has also had roles in such tv shows as “the Golden Palace” and the Don Johnson cop series “Nash Bridges”.
Good to see every ones favorite hapless stoners come together again.
