Cheech And Chong Reunite For First Comedy Tour In 25 Years

LOS ANGELES — Their feud finally having gone up in smoke, Cheech and Chong say they're eager to get back on the road for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.

"We had such a legacy, such a history. We couldn't escape it, even if we tried," Tommy Chong told reporters at a news conference Wednesday at the Troubadour, the Los Angeles nightclub where the pair were discovered more than 35 years ago.

The duo said their "Light Up America" tour will kick off Sept. 12 in Philadelphia.

"It's going to be very theatrical," said Cheech Marin.

If Wednesday's news conference was an indication, it won't spare the pothead humor, either.

"We're definitely still smoking," Chong said when asked.

"I get transfusions now," quipped Marin.

"I like the taste," Chong said. "I'm old fashioned."

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Marin told AP Radio earlier this month that he and the 70-year-old Chong had recently decided that if ever they were to reunite the time was now because, "You're not getting any younger and neither am I."

They 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.

"It takes about three minutes for that to happen, Marin said. "There's this veiled hatred." But he added: "We've kind of resolved that."

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.

"We've gotten to the age where we don't feel like fighting anymore," Marin said, "because the end is a lot closer than the beginning."

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Associated Press writers Michael Weinfeld in Washington and John Rogers in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Comments

[RoloTomassi]

"TASTE!"

"Huh?

"TASTE!!!"

"Tastes like dog sh*t!"

"Ha! Good thing we don't step in it..."

[Getbent]

All right! Whoo hoo! Yes!.....Wait , what were we talking about?

[wayoutleft]

these guys need a morning show on vh1 or somewhere. it would be great if they had a morning show to air concert news, club news, any gossip beneath the more conservative, establisment sources like defamer or lipstick-dot-com, and maybe an astrology panel. lots and lots of music, lots from matt tiabbi and stephen webber; they would work well with joan and melissa rivers... they could do much better than reprising themselves for old boomers.

[yallerdog]

Oh wow, man!!!!
It just a natural fit with these times - the weird time warp back to the Sixties and Seventies. What with the Obamas bringing back the SDS (Ayers & Doran), New Left politics (Michelle) Rockstar ego (Barack) and Peoples Temple-style fanaticism (Obama bloggers like HuffPo); McCain bringing back the Vietnam War (well, himself) and Bush and the Neocon's bringing back the agitprop ("If you not with Us, you're against Us") and Stasi-style police state (Gitmo, Homeland Security, and forced renditions).

[uheardme]

It's about time.

[trollsbwild]

Class......class...class...



SSSSHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUTTTTT UP!

[JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin]

The article is incorrect. Cheech and Chong did SIX films together as Cheech and Chong. And they weren't always stoners. Things Are Tough All Over and The Corsican Brothers had them playing different roles than the usual stoner stuff.

My favorites are Up in Smoke, Things, and Next Movie. Hated Still Smokin'. Nice Dreams was OK.

[ignrnthllblly]

Ok, I hope you two dudes are listening. This is why you stick this time.

You guys are my contemporaries. I bought your first two albums and guffawed along with everybody else. But if I want to go back and listen today, I have all your albums.

Part of my legacy from my father, who guffawed even harder. He'd still be if he were here--at age 92.

[mlaiuppa]

62 and 70? Will they be headlining with McCain?

[MsLiz]

Cough, cough. (inhale) 'ear.

[whizkid]

My client was merely on his way to the police station to turn in the drugs at the time of his arrest.

[wayoutleft]

"dave's not here..."

[DatelessNerd]

America needs them now more than ever.

[CrazyLiberal]

And now the president of United Heads for Hemp, Ashley Roachclip.

I forgot were I was, man.

[TovSquirrel]

Wow, man . . .

[OsamaBushLadin]

Thank God.

Sometimes it's not even the drugs that'll kill you man. What really kills you is looking for drugs. - Chong