Cheech and Chong to reunite for comedy tour!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have overcome their creative differences to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years. Details of the “Hey, What’s That Smell?” tour were to be announced Wednesday (today) at a news conference in West Hollywood, Calif., according to concert promoter Live Nation.During their original run, Marin and Chong released nine comedy albums between 1972 and 1985, were nominated for four Grammy Awards and won one. They also starred in eight feature films, almost always portraying a pair of comical stoners stumbling through life.
Cheech Marin, 62, shared the news with AP Radio that he and Tommy Chong decided to do this now before it’s too late saying “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 comedy duo 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 dope 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.
While Chong has continued to do standup, Marin has concentrated on films and TV appearances and in the past that seemed to be a source of friction. “He considers himself an actor,” Chong said, “someone above the comedy. He wouldn’t do the characters and he won’t grow his mustache back.”
“I guess Cheech forgot how tough standup is,” Chong joked last month after Marin said they were considering reuniting. But he’s got the incentive and the enthusiasm and he’s ready,” he said of his former partner. “My boy is back.”
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