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Joke Fiends Cheech & Chong Reunite
The infamous pothead comedy duo, Cheech & Chong, have set aside their creative differences and are reuniting after more than 25 years to head out on tour, claiming that "it's time for a revival of dope jokes". But will their marijuana-infused humour be readily inhaled by audiences in 2008? Or will their comedic supply have gone stale?
Now that their feud is over, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.Cheech Marin told AP Radio that he and Tommy Chong "looked at each other going, 'If we're ever going to do something it has to be now because you're not getting any younger and neither am I.'"
The duo who gained fame for their marijuana humor tossed around some ideas and figured a comedy tour would be "the most fun" and "the least hassle," the 62-year-old Marin said.
Marin and Chong, who broke up amid creative differences, have tried to reunite before, but have always fought too much. Marin laughed and said: "It takes about 3 minutes for that to happen. There's this veiled hatred." But he added: "We've kind of resolved that."
"We've gotten to the age where we don't feel like fighting anymore because the end is a lot closer than the beginning," he said.
Marin said he thinks pot humor can be as funny today as it was back in the '70s.
"I think it's time for a revival of dope jokes. It's a much bigger audience now, it's much more widespread and institutionalized," he said in an interview earlier this month.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (8)
at 12:11 on July 30th, 2008
This photo was taken outside a headshop in Palm Harbor, FL.
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at 12:48 on July 30th, 2008
This is a photo of my old Cheech and Chong single: bit scratchy & warped but electric guitar still fabulouso!
Earache my Eye / Turn that Thing Down
at 12:49 on July 30th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:08 on July 30th, 2008
"You just ate the most acid I've ever seen anybody eat in my life. I hope you're not busy for about a month."
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at 16:27 on July 30th, 2008
Funny times, never get old. Welcome back Cheech and Chong.
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at 09:31 on July 31st, 2008
Stencil made by Bruno Tatsumi and Caio Antunes. There several Cheech and Chongs faces on the walls of the city of São Paulo. Como to Brazil to check it out!!
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at 06:58 on August 4th, 2008
"Tommy is telling Cheech that he had to follow his dog around for a week, so he could get his weed back, because his dog ate his stash." So they are driving down the road at first smoking the joint; & they get so stoned that they don't realize that they are parked and not moving.
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at 10:27 on August 14th, 2008
Inside a display case in a smoke shop in Harajuku, Japan. Cheech and Chong bobble heads and action figures.
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