Bronze Age Babies: Discuss: Cheech and Chong

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Discuss: Cheech and Chong

7 comments:

dbutler16 said...: I haven't seen anything Cheech & Chong since college. I remember, when I was a kid, my father had a Cheech & Chong album which I listened to a couple of times, and thought it was pretty funny. I don't know if I got all the jokes or not, though. I think of Harold & Kumar as a modern day Cheech & Chong.; May 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM
david_b said...: My brother got into C&C a bit back in '74 and '75... They were the 'next step' after George Carlin for my brother and I.. I preferred Mr. Carlin more, but loved the early movies.

Despite giving in to do the recent tour, I know Cheech Marin's stayed away from his old act for many years. Tommy was the favorite star on '70s Show' for me. He was perfect.; May 29, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Edo Bosnar said...: My older brother introduced me to C&C; I really enjoyed a lot of their stuff, not just the movies, but their albums and stand-up work as well. I think quite a bit of their material still holds up well, and I even have their 'Santa song' on mp3 that I listen to every Christmas (along with Bob & Doug McKenzie's 12 Days of Christmas).
And dbutler, very perceptive observation about Harold & Kumar - I always wondered why I thought there was something familiar about those two...; May 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Fred W. Hill said...: I heard several of their funniest routines on the Dr. Demento show when I was an adolescent in the '70s and saw the movies at drive-ins (geez, that seems so ancient now!)in the early '80s. I never got too deep into the drug culture but thought they were hilarious. Their "Ear ache my eye" routine is one that still cracks me up.; May 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Inkstained Wretch said...: I saw the first Cheech & Chong movie UP in Smoke when I was about 12. I didn't use drugs then (or now) so a lot of the humor just, ahem, blew past me ...

Actually the most fun I've had regarding Cheech & Chong was the recent Simpson episode that had the duo splitting up while on a reunion tour and Homer having to fill in for Chong. The duo was renamed, ahem, "Cheech & Chunk." It was one of the cleverest bits of meta-comedy I've seen in a while.; May 29, 2012 at 1:26 PM
William Preston said...: Pretty much all my exposure was in middle school, the mid-'70s, when kids--the kids who, I now realize, were the ones who went on to be weed fiends--brought tapes of their bits--Sister Mary Elephant, Earache, the thing with the two dogs--to school to play on tape recorders at odd times. Funny to think that, to bring into something now to show a friend, all you need is a smart phone (not that I have one), whereas then you had to bring in something unwieldy and plan ahead.

I'm sure I said that awkwardly, but it's the end of a long day of teaching. Just finished Henry IV, Pt. 1, and here I am talking about Cheech and Chong. I never saw the movies, but that clip reveals that, like the tapes, there's that feeling of them filling in the gaps with chatter, narrating one's every move, a habit a lot of us picked up from those guys.; May 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Mildly funny. I still have my 45 of "Born in East L.A." The B-side is funnier. I found Cheech & Chong pretty one-note but "Corsican Brothers" does make me laugh more than the pothead stuff.

Still 1000% funnier than Harold & Kumar.

I'm more of a Peter Cook & Dudley Moore man myself. Can you top "Bedazzled"? And Raquel Welch as Lust personified? Oh my.

Xrayman; May 29, 2012 at 9:47 PM

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