Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus And His Old Lady
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Cheech & Chong are a Grammy Award–winning comedy duo consisting of Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their films and stand-up routines, which were based on the hippie and free love era, and especially drug and counterculture movements, most notably their love for cannabis. The duo met in Vancouver, British Columbia in the late 1960s. Their early success culminated with the release of their first feature-length movie, Up in Smoke, in 1978. It became something of a cult classic, and was also successful enough at the box office to warrant two sequels: Cheech & Chong's Next Movie in 1980, and Nice Dreams in 1981.
Where There's Smoke There's... Cheech & Chong is an anthology album by Cheech & Chong. Released in 2002, it collects the duo's most popular comedy routines and songs from their eight studio albums, and additional rare material, including tracks that are exclusive to tthi set.
The anthology includes the tracks "Santa Claus And His Old Lady" and "(How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Or A Day At The Beach With Pedro & Man-Part 1", which were previously only available as singles, and on compilations, but had not appeared on any previous Cheech & Chong release.
Santa Claus and His Old Lady a bit by Cheech and Chong, one of their best-known comedy routines. It was the duo's first single. The single barely reached the top 40, peaking at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1971.
The sketch begins with Cheech attempting to write a parody of ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus? (Spanish for Where is Santa Claus?) a Christmas song by Augie Rios from 1958, to little success. Chong enters, at which point he reveals that he has never heard of Santa Claus (Chong repeatedly mistakes Santa Claus for a musician).
Cheech then explains the story of Santa Claus, but from an unusual perspective: he and his wife began in the projects, after which (in no small part due to the cannabis-infused brownies Mrs. Claus became known for) they were driven out and formed a commune at the North Pole with a large group of midgets. Cheech explains that the reason Santa's sleigh can fly is because of the liberal use of "magic dust" and that an uncomfortable experience with Border Patrol prompted him to go underground. According to Cheech, Santa Claus now works undercover as a Salvation Army bell-ringer, at which point Chong once again, and more certainly this time, asserts he really had played music with Santa Claus.
In contrast to most of their other sketches, Cheech and Chong play fictionalized versions of themselves in this bit. (Chong himself was a musician before beginning his collaboration with Cheech, most prominently as a songwriter and vocalist for Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers in the late 1960s.)
Where There's Smoke There's... Cheech & Chong is an anthology album by Cheech & Chong. Released in 2002, it collects the duo's most popular comedy routines and songs from their eight studio albums, and additional rare material, including tracks that are exclusive to tthi set.
The anthology includes the tracks "Santa Claus And His Old Lady" and "(How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Or A Day At The Beach With Pedro & Man-Part 1", which were previously only available as singles, and on compilations, but had not appeared on any previous Cheech & Chong release.
Santa Claus and His Old Lady a bit by Cheech and Chong, one of their best-known comedy routines. It was the duo's first single. The single barely reached the top 40, peaking at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1971.
The sketch begins with Cheech attempting to write a parody of ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus? (Spanish for Where is Santa Claus?) a Christmas song by Augie Rios from 1958, to little success. Chong enters, at which point he reveals that he has never heard of Santa Claus (Chong repeatedly mistakes Santa Claus for a musician).
Cheech then explains the story of Santa Claus, but from an unusual perspective: he and his wife began in the projects, after which (in no small part due to the cannabis-infused brownies Mrs. Claus became known for) they were driven out and formed a commune at the North Pole with a large group of midgets. Cheech explains that the reason Santa's sleigh can fly is because of the liberal use of "magic dust" and that an uncomfortable experience with Border Patrol prompted him to go underground. According to Cheech, Santa Claus now works undercover as a Salvation Army bell-ringer, at which point Chong once again, and more certainly this time, asserts he really had played music with Santa Claus.
In contrast to most of their other sketches, Cheech and Chong play fictionalized versions of themselves in this bit. (Chong himself was a musician before beginning his collaboration with Cheech, most prominently as a songwriter and vocalist for Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers in the late 1960s.)