Cheech & Chong re-united after 3 decades

February 4, 2009 | By Kim Walker

Anyone old enough to know Cheech & Chong might be interested to know they’re back on tour.

It took a quarter of a century, five presidential administrations, two divorces and a nine-month prison sentence, but Cheech & Chong, those lovable lowlifes of comedy who broke up in 1985 to pursue solo opportunities and get away from each other, have at last reunited.

Only now, when they play the characters from their repertory of comical degenerates or reminisce about their 40-year-old partnership, there’s an added poignancy; the acts are colored not only by a marijuana haze but also by the passage of time, and by the onset of old age and infirmity.

Their concert performances consist primarily of the absurdist character sketches they created in their 1970s-era heyday. In one skit Marin and Chong, play an old man who cross paths in a park. “It’s funny, I was a young guy when we started doing it,” Chong said of the park skit. “Now I’m an old guy playing an old guy.”

From the IHT