The iconic team of Cheech and Chong have teamed up once again to bring comedy to stage. They were once well known for lampooning the druge abusing culture. In 1976 their film "Up in smoke" created history , grossing 100M$.
At their peak in the 1970s, Cheech and Chong represented the mainstream embodiment of the attitudes and lifestyles of the underground drug culture. Much as W.C. Fields shot to fame by making alcohol the focus of his act, the duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong emerged from a cloud of pot to champion the stoner community.
After a brief meeting on the sets of a TV detective serial, they are once again teaming up after almost 25 years to take their brand of comedy to the road.
During the 80's they worked feverishly to bring out one comedy after another. As the 1970's years of hedonisma nd hippyism slowly graduated to 80's decade of conservitism, they suddenly found themselves without an audience.
This lead the duo to break up and then work in very low budget movies, almost unknown to the later generations.
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