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- Cheech and Chong's Chronicles
- Bilingualism
- Los Tejanos
- Chimichanga Chronicles
- Cheech and Chong's
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Cheech Marin (born Richard Anthony Marin on July 13, 1946), is a Mexican American comedian and actor. He was born in South Los Angeles to Oscar Marin (an LAPD officer) and Elsa Melsa. Marin is a graduate of California State University Northridge where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. His stage persona is that of a stereotypical Mexican immigrant, or an uneducated urban Chicano. Fleeing from the US draft during the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, Marin settled in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Most cited works
- Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge2002 · 15 cit
- Tobacco literature. A bibliography of publications in the United States Library of Congress.1970 · 1 cit
- Lecture by Cheech Marin, given at Florida International University, 20042004 · 0 cit
- Tin Cup: Conversations About the Film1996 · 0 cit
- Tobacco. Bibliography of books at the D. H. Hill library, N.C. State University.1968 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances
· 2007 · cited 4,475x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,394x
- Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2019 · cited 4,028x
- Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in men with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea with or without treatment with continuous positive airway pressure: an observational study
· 2005 · cited 3,913x
- Topological photonics
· 2014 · cited 3,319x
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Quotes
- “Right when I was born. I was born and my uncle looked in the crib and I was this curled-up little baby and he says, "Oh, he looks like a little chicharron." The chicharron is a deep-fried pig skin, you know? And I looked like this little curlycue, like a curly fry. And he said, "Oh, he looks like a little chicharron." So that became my family name, Chicharron. And that got shortened to Cheech…”
- “It is very much like Chicano art..It is sophisticated and primitive simultaneously. The scenes would play out and ... the comedy would be absorbed rather than having it jammed down [your throat].”
- “It is a very physically and mentally torturous process. It goes 18-20 hours a day, and if you’re stoned during that whole period, you’re not going to make a good movie, because you just won’t have the stamina to physically and mentally do that. And it’s every day. So we didn’t get stoned making the record, never stoned on stage. But we were very disciplined artists about what we were doing. It didn’t magically happen. Well, it did magically happen, but not without effort.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Anthony Marin , ( 1946-07-13 ) July 13, 1946 (age 79) , Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- California State University, Northridge ( AB )
- Spouses
- Darlene Morley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1984 ) Patti Heid ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2009 ) Natasha Rubin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian musician activist
- Years active
- 1971–present
- Medium
- Film stand-up television
- Genres
- Character comedy musical comedy political satire sketch comedy stoner comedy
- Subjects
- Latin American culture drug culture everyday life recreational drug use
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Official website
Cheech & Chong's Global – Cheech & Chong's Global
cheechandchong.com →You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it’s a perfect plant! The ultimate irreverent activist. Almost as famous for his lifetime of cannabis advocacy as he is for the string of genre defining comedy records and hit movies. Originally found in ancient China… (Tommy always said “Pot was in his blood”.) Historians say this early pot was too low in THC to get you high… We think historians underestimate how much free time people used to have… Anything’ll get you high if you smoke enough of it. They said pot was dangerous. That if you smoked just one joint, you’d end up going crazy and becoming a sex maniac (I mean… that part’s kinda true…) and you’d kill yourself. (Definitely NOT true.) Millions of people suffered so that this dickhead could corner the paper market. True Story. “My dad was a policeman, LAPD, 30 years, and I got that line growing up: ‘Marijuana, don’t you ever try marijuana or I’ll end your short little life right now!’ That first record, “Cheech and Chong”, showed the world the fun side of pot. The next record, “Big Bambu”, became the highest selling comedy record of all time. And kicked off a decade long string of hits like “Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie”, “Still Smokin’”, & “Nice Dreams”. Hemp-derived CBD and THC are finally available to (almost) everyone who needs them. Cheech & Chong's hemp-derived products contain legal hemp that complies with the 2018 Farm Bill and contains less than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol by dry weight. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.cheechandchong.com
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- Cheech Marin by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- 1946-07-13
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- Cheech Marin
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Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American comedian and actor. He gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. Marin has also voiced characters in several Disney films, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, the Cars franchise, Coco, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Chicano accents.