Word: cheech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cheech and Chong don't look like bums anymore. In fact, Cheech Martin and Tommy Chong have escaped the barrio forever and are flying high on two magical drugs: popularity and commercial success. As a stand-up comedy team, they had thousands of followers for their routines about ghetto life and the constant lust for all types of marijuana. In laconic style, the two based their humor on strange, burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know...
...years ago, the pair embarked on a film project: Up in Smoke, a picaresque comedy of two low riders in search of the biggest marijuana joint in the world. Surprisingly, it grossed $104 million world-wide; not surprisingly, Universal eagerly produced their next film, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, which opens today (see review). In Boston to publicize the new film, the duo submitted to an early morning press conference...