Cheech and Chong

This 1973 release followed Big Bambu to No. 2 on the pop charts (!) and remains their best work. Sargent Stadenko opens the platter, but the real tour de force is "Pedro and the Man At the Drive-In," an extended skit busting with drug culture idiocy and Hollywood parodies. Marin's "Basketball Jones" ends things on a delirious high and became a hit soul single.

Is this really the best we can do for comedy? Dope jokes -- pictures of it, guys imitating
Narks, guys sounding stoned, guys like Cheech y Chong. There's just nothing funny about it
-- except that they conned George Harrison, Carole King and a lot of other superstars into
playing on a completely trivial satire, "Basketball Jones." Now, that's funny. As for the rest,
there is an interview with a body louse and two guys fighting over a Black Sabba... More >