Fri, August 01, 2008
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America's most famous stoners rocking up to their comeback news conference in Hollywood in a vintage ride.
Re-introducing Cheech and Chong, the bumbling pot smokers of 1970's stage and screen fame.
SOUNDBITE: CHEECH MARIN SAYING:
"Welcome home, welcome back to the Troubadour (nightclub)."
Come September, they'll be tickling funny bones all over again with their first U.S. tour in more than 25 years.
SOUNDBITE: TOMMY CHONG SAYING:
"Before we go any further, this is Cheech."
Tommy Chong at 70.
SOUNDBITE: TOMMY CHONG SAYING:
"This is a moment that I've been looking forward to for many, many years because we have such a legacy and such a history together that we couldn't escape it, even if we tried. So at the end of the day we just looked at each other and said 'we better do this now man, because there ain't no tomorrow."
Cheech Marin is 62 but says their old routines play across the generations.
SOUNDBITE: CHEECH MARIN, SAYING:
"We've had the younger audience all along. Every time they hit that certain age, they go through that Cheech & Chong period of watching the movies, listening to the records. So, it's almost like a right of passage"
Here's a taster, for the uninitiated.
UPSOUND FROM MOVIE "CHEECH AND CHONG'S UP IN SMOKE"
Cruising down the freeway in a cloud of marijuana smoke - from Up in Smoke, one of eight hit movies for Cheech and Chong.
They also put out nine comedy albums between the early 70s and mid-80s, when they split over "creative differences".
HInts from the comedy pair that they'll be serving up more of the hugely popular same - stupid things will be said and done while stoned.
And, there will be food, they say no one will be leaving their shows with "the munchies".
SOUNDBITES:
TOMMY CHONG, SAYING:
"And mucho (a lot) of tortillas."
CHEECH MARIN, SAYING:
"And tacos libres (free tacos)."5
You heard it here, free tacos - and suitable props - at Cheech and Chong's LIght Up America comeback tour.
Expect a whiff of a certain something in the air.
