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
Just recently up in Utah, some guy got 55 years for selling an ounce of pot to an undercover agent.
I was the original guy that started that group, Bobby Taylor was, I started off with a group called The Shades we were in Calgary.
I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.
I never had a criminal record. They were kinda banking on the fact that I was dirty as can be.
Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.
Look what happened to me for a bong,
But on the other hand, pot is the best recreational substance for teenagers, athletes, people who have naturally high adrenaline.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
Ya, we had a number one record, ya we, there's a lot of history there, we uh, we discovered the Jackson Five, opening for us one place.
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.