Extended Interview: Cheech and Chong the Laid-back Potheads
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
CBS News
4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The comedy team of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about their latest collaboration, "Cheech & Chong's Last Movie." The comedians also discuss how their partnership first clicked and continues to do so; their approach to aging; and how, despite being best known as stoner comics, the majority of their comic material is about anything but weed. This interview last aired on April 14, 2025.
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| 0:27.2 | available in the Nickelodeon Songs and Games Feed. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Jane Pauley. 50 years ago, Cheech Marin met Tommy Chong and a legendary comedy duo was born. |
| 0:48.2 | All these decades later, they're still making us laugh. |
| 0:52.1 | Here's their conversation with our Tracy Smith. |
| 0:57.9 | You know, as if we were put here for a reason, |
| 1:02.0 | because there's a lot of stuff that's happening |
| 1:04.8 | that technically should not have happened, you know. |
| 1:09.0 | But somehow the planet's aligned or something? |
| 1:11.6 | Is that how you guys feel? |
| 1:12.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:13.6 | It's exactly how we met. |
| 1:15.6 | When we first met, we looked at each other and we both had the same thought. |
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