Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong
Thomas B. Kin "Tommy" Chongis a Canadian American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician. He is well known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 May 1938
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.
There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.