No one wants to hear about it, especially my kids, but I did walk a mile in the snow across open fields to school.” We lived a good seven years under those conditions. “We had outdoor plumbing and a neighbour’s pump for water. “You couldn’t be any poorer than we were,” says Chong of his early years. He lived just outside the city for most of his formative years before moving to Calgary’s northwest where he attended Crescent Heights. Chong was born in Edmonton, but arrived in Calgary as a young child. Marin was born in Los Angeles but came to Cowtown to escape the draft in the 1960s and eventually worked in Banff before moving to Vancouver. While Cheech and Chong met and began cutting their comedic teeth in Vancouver, both have Calgary in their backgrounds. “We can make more money being Cheech and Chong then we can (separately.) Cheech and I get along really well.

“It’s like a divorced couple coming back because of the job,” he says. Whatever the case, Chong insists that the two are getting along famously at the moment. Rodriguez / Getty Images for Sports Spectacular The book came nearly a decade after Chong’s Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Biography, where Marin is portrayed as being envious of his partner and ungrateful of the success and riches the comedy duo earned.Īrticle content Comedian Tommy Chong reunites with old partner Cheech Marin for a show in Calgary. Marin, who was not available for an interview with Postmedia this week, released his memoir Cheech is Not My Real Name … But Don’t Call Me Chong in 2017, in which he suggests his partner’s need for control was what led to the split in the 1980s. At one point during the interview, Chong suggests that the reason a new live-action Cheech and Chong movie never got made - an animated film was released in 2013, and a documentary is waiting in the wings - is because Marin was opposed to Chong directing it. Which seems to indicate the two still don’t see eye to eye on everything, even if they have patched up their differences enough to tour on a regular basis. “Especially Cheech,” he adds with a laugh. “Sometimes I hit it out of the park and other times I strike out,” he says. Still, at least a couple of times every night, Chong says he gets to branch out and try new bits.

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