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
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
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.
Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.
There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
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.