Comedy duo Cheech & Chong began doing improv theater collectively about 55 years in the past, in an act they’ve known as “hippie burlesque,” at a Vancouver strip membership. Ten years later they invented the stoner buddy film style with Up In Smoke, introducing mainstream America to a variety of weed jokes and likewise a friendlier 70’s Chicano tradition than had been portrayed on display screen. We discuss with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, who’re a part of the comedy pageant SF Sketchfest, about their lengthy careers, artwork, activism and whether or not legalization has made marijuana any much less humorous.
