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[[File:300cheech_chong_090402032509725_wideweb__300x281_3531.jpg|frame|''When troubled times / be-gin to bother me / I take a toke / and all my cares go up in smoke'']]
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Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong form the [[Los Angeles]]-[[Canada|Canadian]] comedy team [[Cheech and Chong]]. Their comedy derives from [[The Stoner|pot smoking]], hippies, the free love movement, pop culture, incompetent leaders (particularly [[Police Are Useless|cops]]) and [[Stoners Are Funny|more pot smoking]]. Cheech Marin, a Mexican-American, was based in L.A. and Tommy Chong, the son of a Chinese truck driver and a Scots-Irish waitress, was born and lived in Canada.▼
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▲Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong form the [[Los Angeles]]-[[Canada|Canadian]] comedy team Cheech and Chong. Their comedy derives from [[The Stoner|pot smoking]], hippies, the free love movement, pop culture, incompetent leaders (particularly [[Police Are Useless|cops]]) and [[Stoners Are Funny|more pot smoking]]. Cheech Marin, a Mexican-American, was based in L.A. and Tommy Chong, the son of a Chinese truck driver and a Scots-Irish waitress, was born and lived in Canada.
Chong was originally the guitarist of the interracial R&B group Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers (formerly "Four Niggers and a Chink"), whose hit single "Does Your Mama Know About Me", was cowritten by Chong (it was inspired by Chong's Afro-Canadian ex-wife, Maxine, the mother of Rae Dawn and Robbi).
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While attempting to turn a strip joint into a comedy club (including combining strippers and comedy routines), Chong met Cheech, who came to Canada to evade the draft, and the rest was history. Born Richard Marin, the stage name "Cheech" is short for "chicharron", a fried pork skin that is a popular snack in Mexican cuisine.
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Their success with live shows and albums was followed by a successful film career, beginning with ''[[Up in Smoke]]''. However, Cheech felt that if he continued playing stoner roles, he wouldn't be taken seriously as an actor, leading to the duo's breakup, following more "experimental" efforts like ''The Corsican Brothers'', which didn't feature any drug humor at all, and the video and album ''Get Out Of My Room'', which focused primarily on comedy music (and, again, featured very little pot smoking).
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Compare and contrast [[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]].
'''Cheech & Chong'''
* ''[[Up in Smoke]]'' (1978)
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'''Cheech Marin'''
* ''Born in East L.A.'' (1987)
* ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' (1988)
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'''Tommy Chong'''
* ''Far Out Man'' (1990)
* ''[[Half Baked]]'' (1998)
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* ''Chinaman's Chance'' (2008)
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'''Cheech & Chong'''
* ''[[Self-Titled Album|Cheech and Chong]]''
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'''Cheech Marin'''
* ''My Name Is Cheech the School Bus Driver'' (1992) - children's album, released in both English and Spanish versions.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Cheech on occasion. Unlike the [[Erudite Stoner|perpetually mellow]] Chong. Subverted in ''Things Are Tough All Over'', where both play two sets of characters: their usual personas and [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] Arab businessmen Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong), who try to kill Cheech & Chong, believing them to have stolen their money due to a comic misunderstanding.
* [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: "Born in East L.A." (a Cheech solo song credited to Cheech & Chong) originally premiered in the video and album ''Get Out Of My Room'', but is better known thanks to being turned into a Cheech solo movie of the same name, which briefly featured the song that it was based on. It's also the only song from the album that the two acknowledge, as they performed a revamped version during their reunion tours (with a salsa interlude to highlight Chong and Shelby's salsa dancing, something they took up as a hobby in the 1990s).
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