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Cheech & Chong Plan First Tour In 25 Years

Comedy duo Cheech and Chong will reunite for their first tour in more than 25 years, beginning Sept. 12 at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia.

By Mitchell Peters

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Comedy duo Cheech and Chong will reunite for their first tour in more than 25 years, beginning Sept. 12 at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia. More than 20 dates have been confirmed for the Live Nation-produced U.S. trek, with more to be announced in the coming weeks. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s upcoming “Light Up America…” tour will visit such markets as Washington, D.C., Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston and Denver. Tickets for the jaunt go on sale Aug. 8 via livenation.com. Chong’s wife and comedy partner, Shelby Chong, has been tapped to open all dates. In their career as a comedy duo, Marin and Chong released nine albums between 1972 and 1985 and won a Grammy Award for best comedy album (“Los Cochinos”) in 1973. The pair also co-wrote and starred in eight films, including “Up In Smoke,” “Next Movie” and “Nice Dreams.” Here are Cheech & Chong’s U.S. tour dates: Sept. 12: Philadelphia (Tower Theatre) Sept. 13: Washington, D.C. (Warner Theatre) Sept. 19: Indianapolis (Murat Center) Sept. 20: Detroit (Fillmore State) Sept. 26: Atlanta (Tabernacle) Sept. 27: Miami (Fillmore Jackie Gleason) Oct. 24: Westbury, N.Y. (Westbury Theatre) Oct. 25: Minneapolis (Orpheum Theatre) Oct. 31: Houston (Verizon Wireless) Nov. 1: Dallas (Majestic Theatre) Nov. 7: Wallingford, Conn. (Chevrolet Theatre) Nov. 8: Rosemont, Ill. (Rosemont Theatre) Nov. 14: Phoenix (Dodge Theatre) Nov. 15: Austin, Texas (Austin Music Hall) Nov. 21: Sacramento, Calif. (Memorial Auditorium) Nov. 22: Berkley, Calif. (Berkeley Community Theatre) Nov. 28: San Diego (Copley Symphony Hall) Nov. 29: Seattle (Paramount Theatre) Nov. 30: San Jose, Calif. (San Jose PAC) Dec. 6: Los Angeles (Gibson Amphitheater) Dec. 12: Boston (Orpheum Theatre) Dec. 13: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Music Box) Dec. 19: Reno, Nev. (Silver Legacy Casino) Dec. 20: Denver (Paramount Theatre)

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There have been many successful comedy pairings over the years, but few have been as successful or long lasting as the comedic partnership between Richard ‘Cheech’ Marin and Tommy Chong. Cheech and Chong have successfully turned their hand to various forms of comedy, including stand up, film, television, literature and music, over the years and each medium they work with seems to gel and mould with the others. Their music, or rather comedic songs, seems to be the most malleable, working its way into almost every project the guys work on.

Cheech and Chong are known for their stoner ways and stereotypically-hippy lifestyles, and as such make great fodder for the guys’ comedic tracks. Marijuana and other drug references have always been prominent themes within their music, with titles such as “Marijuana”, “Up in Smoke”, “Let’s Make a Dope Deal” and “Trippin’ in Court” all making very specific references to some of the guys’ favourite pastimes. Their ballsiness and silliness in their music has always worked well, and continues to be a hit in their live concerts today.

When performing live on their most recent tour dates, you’d never know that the guys had spent any time not performing together. Their ease with each other onstage speaks volumes about their friendship, and how in sync their brains and sense of humour are. You are guaranteed to always see diehard fans of the pair at any of their shows and these fans will 100% know every word to songs like “Basketball Jones”, “Earache My Eye” and “Hitchhiking.” Cheech and Chong are a classic comedy pair and you should definitely see them live!

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Cheech & Chong Return for One ‘Last Movie’

By David Fear

Tommy Chong has his cellphone pressed up tight against his ear, trying to find out where the person on the other end of the line is; at 85, his hearing isn’t what it used to be. Sitting across from him in the booth of a restaurant, located right off the lobby of an extremely busy hotel in downtown Austin, Texas, is Richard Marin. The 77-year-old actor is usually known by his nickname, “Cheech,” and he’s perusing the menu while his longtime partner loudly issues directions regarding where to meet up later. Marin orders taquitos, and will spend the rest of lunch generously offering up his meal to everyone at the table. Sitting right between the two of them is filmmaker David Bushell, who is asking what it’s going to take to get Cheech & Chong into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. No comedians have ever been nominated, he points out, but these guys are as rock & roll as anyone else who’s been inducted. If not them, then who?

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The fact that no one had ever made the definitive portrait of Cheech & Chong before is, frankly, ridiculous, given how much ground these two guys have covered over a 50-plus year career. “It’s kind of a no-brainer,” Bushell says. Both guys nod in agreement as well. A longtime producer ( Sling Blade, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dallas Buys Club ), Bushell had been talking to Robbi Chong, Tommy’s daughter about a possible “reunion” film back in the early 2000s. The plan was to make a traditional Cheech & Chong comedy along the lines of Up in Smoke ; a number of obstacles, not the least of which was Chong going to prison in 2003, stalled the project.

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“I remember I was with Johnny Taylor in London,” Chong recalls, “and we’d just done a gig with Jimi Hendrix. We’re all talking about what a fantastic musician he was, and for some reason, I just blurted out, ‘I’m going to be bigger than him.’ The conversation just stops dead. Everyone is staring at me. Finally, the drummer goes, ‘So you’re going to be a better guitarist than Jimi Hendrix?’ And I said, I didn’t say better — I said bigger. I don’t know why I felt that why, I just did. Then later, when I met Cheech, it was immediately like: Oh, now I know why I felt that. This was the reason.”

“The thing is, there were so many coincidences that happened,” Marin says. “Like the fact that I ended up in this small Canadian town where Tommy grew up. I kept hearing about this Chong guy, because he was the most famous musician who’d come from there. His name was in my ear all the time. Then I get to Vancouver, I see ‘Tommy Chong’ on a poster for a club, and it’s like, Oh! It’s that guy!”

“I don’t think you realized who I was right away,” Chong counters. “But we immediately started talking about childhood, drugs, the draft. Cheech didn’t tell me who he was, because he was careful of saying too much due to his situation in the States….”

“I’d seen Second City, and The Committee in San Francisco, so were trying to be like those guys,” Chong interjects. “— and they were performing in this topless bar,” Marin continues. “It was like hippie burlesque.”

“Never been done before,” Chong says.

“Never been done before,” Cheech echoes. “Or since! I joined, because I thought it was hilarious. And then when it just became us …we had a set of common references. I grew up steeped in R&B music, and Tommy played it. I grew up in a Black neighborhood, and Tommy moved in that world. If I mentioned something for a sketch or a bit, I knew he’d get it. ‘Oh, yeah, I know what you’re talking about — what if we did this with it?’ Then we’d go onstage, and it would just sort of happen. And the idea of the hippie generation being portrayed by this Chicano lowrider and this half-Chinese dude, and representing different aspects of America? I got that right away.”

“The humor was not intellectual,” Chong adds. “That’s why stoners and grade school kids both liked it. I mean, you take something like the Sister Mary Elephant character” — he suddenly goes into her nasally voice, familiar to anyone who owns their 1972 album Big Bambu — “‘Class? Claaasss ? Claaaaassssssss ?!’ You didn’t have to be a genius to find it funny.”

“It takes a certain kind of person to tell a joke that’s both brilliant and stupid simultaneously,” Cheech notes. “It’s not easy. And if you can put those things together, everybody gets it.”

As Last Movie winds through their timeline, you see how their ability to riff off of each other informed pretty much every aspect of their career. When they went from being a stage act to recording albums, the creative process wasn’t much different: take an idea, run with it and see where it goes. The movie goes into how they came up with their breakthrough bit, “Dave’s Not Here” — essentially, Cheech was stuck outside the studio on a sweltering day, continually knocked on the door to get let back in, and Chong just kept fucking with him in real time. “That was basically our rehearsal,” Chong says. “I had one of those tiny recorders going, and I wish I still had that rehearsal tape. It was even funnier than the version we cut in the studio a few hours later.”

When the two transitioned their signature “Pedro and Man” act to the movies, they came up with a blueprint for a story that left room for them to just do their thing. “The word on Up in Smoke was, ‘ Cheech and Chong are making a movie, and there’s no script.’ That was bullshit, because there was a script — I know because I wrote it! Cheech and I hashed out the premise, but then we hired a bunch of folks from Robert Altman’s movies and other actors who knew could improvise. Tom Skerritt was from MASH ; Stacey Keach and Strother Martin were great with just rolling with whatever. That was how we made comedy, so….”

Cheech & Chong were already stars. Up in Smoke made them stratospheric. “Luckily for us, we had a producer who made sure we didn’t get too big,” Chong says.

“What he means is, the guy stole our money,” Cheech adds.

“When we on the road or recording, we had money coming in,” Chong says. “When we just making the movie — no money coming in. Later, I got sued over a ‘loan,’ and we discovered some hanky panky was going on, which I can’t talk about because we ended up settling. But I like to think that because we were practically broke, it kept us working a lot, and that’s why we have the legacy we do today.”

“That’s a very nice way of looking at it,” Cheech says, diplomatically.

The duo kept making movies together until the mid-1980s, at which point they decided to go their separate ways. The fact that Chong was now the de facto director of their films had upset the balance of power. And the sort of Dope-and-Crosby double act they’d perfected for the screen was becoming stifling. Marin recalls a story about making Born in East L.A. , the 1987 movie that he made based on his his parody of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.” He showed a rough cut to a journalist, “because I just needed some feedback. The guy asked me a question, I answered him, and then he just stares at me. Doesn’t say a word. Finally, I said, ‘What’s going on?’ And he replied, ‘You don’t speak with an accent?!’ Like, he believes I’m really that guy. I thought, I can’t do this anymore.”

The idea was to use those sequences to transition from one segment or era to the next. Chong, for his part, was game to go along. (“Potheads have bad memories, so I thought, ‘Put us in a car together? That seems new, let’s try it,'” he jokes.) Marin wasn’t so sure, but eventually agreed. Bushell, however, was also hoping that these scenes would give them the space to talk openly with each other — “to trap them in one spot and poke them with a fork a little to see what comes up.” The result is a little like sitting in one someone’s couples-counseling session. The two comics bicker and bring up old grudges. It’s uncomfortable, but also remarkably honest in the best possible way.

Chong acknowledged that filming those sequences was “painful.” But both of them admit it makes the doc better, and underlines a key part of their relationship. “There was a discussion that Dave and I had,” Cheech says. “He wanted me to put my arm around Tommy at one point, and I was like, I’m not doing that. Because it’s didn’t feel true to me. I had to say, Look: Tommy and I are not best friends. We’re brothers. There’s a difference. And the thing about brothers is, you don’t always like each other. You get into vicious fights. But you always have your brother’s back. And that’s what those scenes are.”

The two talk some more, reminiscing about the old days and musing about the fact that you can now walk into a dispensary and buy high-quality weed products — including some that bear their name. (“We always acted like pot was legal,” Cheech says. “Because everywhere we went, and when we were with the people we were hanging out with, it was legal! Everyone else just caught up to us.”) Then they get ready to leave, so they can rest up before they do a surprise appearance in a local club and treat an enthusiastic audience to a rendition of “Mexican-American” from 1980’s Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie.

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So even after all that time, it was just like riding a bike?

“It was like fucking a bike, which is kind of like riding a bike but is even better,” Marin says, and he his partner both crack up. “Neither of us had to think about it. We just did it. It’s just part of our shared DNA now.

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The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture opened in June 2022 as a public-private partnership between RAM, the City of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art.

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Actor, Writer, Director, Comedian, Speaker, Musician, Art Collector …

Best known as one half of the hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred duo Cheech and Chong (now on tour), Cheech Marin is a paradox in the world of entertainment. Cheech is an actor, director, writer, musician, art collector, and humanitarian, a man who has enough talent, humor, and intelligence to do just about anything. He is truly a multi-generational star. To this day, Cheech and Chong films remain the number one weekend video rentals, and Cheech is widely acknowledged as a cultural icon. Cheech’s long-awaited memoir entitled Cheech is Not My Real Name…But Don’t Call Me Chong! was released in 2017.

Cheech (real name Richard) Marin was born in South Central Los Angeles and met Tommy Chong in Vancouver, British Columbia as a political refugee. The duo moved back to Los Angeles and proved to be “entertainment gold.” Six of their albums went gold, four were nominated for Grammys, and Los Cochinos won the 1973 Grammy for Best Comedy Recording. The critically acclaimed duo made a fluid transition to films, starring in eight features together.

During his split with Chong, Cheech wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy Born In East L.A. He appeared in over 20 films, including his scene-stealing role in Tin Cup . On television, Cheech was a sitcom regular before joining Don Johnson on the highly successful CBS drama Nash Bridges (1996-2001). He later had a recurring role on the hit NBC show, Lost , and in recent years, he guest-starred on Rob and Jane the Virgin . Through his popular Disney Pixar animation film roles ( Oliver & Company , The Lion King , Cars , and more) and as an author of children’s books such as Cheech the School Bus Driver , Cheech is also a favorite with kids and parents around the world.

In 2009, everyone’s favorite duo reunited after 25 years apart for a national and international comedy tour, the Li ght Up America reunion tour, selling out everywhere. They also shot a full-length live comedy film Hey Watch This in 2010. The pair followed with subsequent tours, satisfying audiences thirsty to see the pair together. They continue to perform together as their schedules allow.

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Cheech is recognized today as a preeminent Chicano art advocate. In the mid-1980s, he began developing what is now arguably the finest private collection of Chicano art. Much of it formed the core of his inaugural exhibition Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge , which broke attendance records during its groundbreaking 15‐city tour during 2001‐2007 to major art museums across the United States. He states, “Chicano art is American art. My goal is to bring the term ‘Chicano’ to the forefront of the art world.”

Following the success of Chicano Visions , over a dozen additional exhibitions drawn from the Cheech Marin Collection have toured more than 50 major art museums across the United States and in Europe under the direction of Melissa Richardson Banks . In addition, art books have been independently published to accompany many of these exhibitions, including Papel Chicano: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin , Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection , and Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin . Artwork from his collection inspires his work in other ways. For example, the bottle design of Tres Papalote Mezcal , for which Cheech serves as the brand ambassador, was inspired by the contemporary glass sculptures and other works of Einar and Jamex de la Torre , two brothers who are represented his collection.

Chicano Art Exhibitions

Furthering his goal to introduce Chicano art to a wider audience, Marin has entered a partnership with the City of Riverside and Riverside Art Museum to create The Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture, and Industry . Slated to open in 2021, The Cheech will become the permanent home for his more than 700 works of Chicano art, including paintings, sculptures, and photography; collectively, the most renowned Chicano art collection in the United States.

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Cheech is a nationally ranked golfer, active in the charity circuit. Married to Russian-born classical pianist Natasha Marin , the couple resides in Pacific Palisades, California.

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"Cheech & Chong's Last Movie" Premiere Photo by Andy Wenstrand

Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie Red Carpet and Screening Q&A

Interviews from the world premiere at sxsw 2024.

By Olivia Cruz

Film & TV

Film & TV Festival Video Q&A

The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival rolled out the red carpet for the World Premiere of Cheech & Chong's Last Movie featuring a Rolls-Royce pulling the largest joint you've ever seen down Congress Avenue in Austin. David Bushell's Documentary Feature presents a collection of archival footage of their legendary career alongside captivating personal truths.

Since the 70s, iconic comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have found success across generations in a long list of feature films, studio recordings, live performances, and more. From warming up improv audiences to becoming international household names, their particular brand of humor was connecting with audiences regardless of age and race.

" It's not just about making people laugh, it's about respecting each others backgrounds, and who we came from, and why we're here. What Cheech and I did, besides make everybody laugh...we made Chicanos legal! " - Tommy Chong, Comedian/Actor/Musician/Activist

Co-produced by Tommy Chong's daughter, Robbi Chong, the film was able to dig deep into the occasionally contentious brotherhood and the evolution of their partnership. As for what comes next, the two touch on the possibilities of more voice over work and a biopic about their serendipitous journey to stardom.

" ...the biopic. Where we have really handsome people play us, and do stunts that we couldn't do anyway. We're gonna keep the Cheech & Chong legacy alive for as long as we can. " - Tommy Chong, Comedian/Actor/Musician/Activist

Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie at SXSW 2024

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*(Teaser Photo:) Cheech & Chong's Last Movie SXSW 2024 Post-Screening Q&A - Photo by - Bailey Flores; (Hero Photo:) "Cheech & Chong's Last Movie" Premiere Photo by Andy Wenstrand

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