Tommy Chong’s Cheech & CHONG'S... | 1980

Clip Name: Playing the Guitar Loudly

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Tommy Chong’s Cheech & Chong's Next Movie | 1980

Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong and Evelyn Guerrero
Directed by: Tommy Chong
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Tommy Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian comedian, actor and musician who is well-known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners. He is most widely known for his involvement in the marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. Chong was born as Thomas B. Kin Chong in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Lorna Jean Gilchrist, a waitress of Scots-Irish ancestry, and Stanley Chong, a truck driver of Chinese descent. While he was still young, his family moved to Calgary, Alberta, to a neighbourhood Chong refers to as the Dog Patch. He says that his father had "been wounded in World War II, and there was a veterans' hospital in Calgary. He bought a five-hundred dollar house in Dog Patch, and raised his family on fifty dollars a week". He later graduated from James Fowler High school in Calgary, Alberta. By the early 1960s, Chong was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called The Shades. The...