A biography for Tommy Chonghasn’t been written yet.
“I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.”
“They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.”
“Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.”
“People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.”
“I'm as clean as a whistle.”
“If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.”
“I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.”
“You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.”
“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.”
“But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.”
“Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.”
“Once you're a felon you're a target.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.”
“I'm a hybrid.”