Thomas B. Kin Chong initially formed comedic-pair with ‘Cheech’ Marin to co-create series of award-winning comedy albums.
Chong’s debut movie was ‘Up in Smoke’ (1978). Next, he wrote, directed, starred in ‘Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie’ (1980), first of the duo’s 7 movies together; followed by, ‘Nice Dreams’ (1981). Chong wrote all 7 movies, including ‘Things are tough All Over’ (1982), ‘Still Smokin’ (1983, directed), ‘Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers’ (1984, directed), ‘Get Out of My Room’ (1985).
Chong also featured in ‘Yellowbeard’ (1983), ‘After Hours’ (1985), ‘Tripwire’ (1989). He was writer-director-star of comedy-film ‘Far out Man’ (1990). He appeared in TV-series ‘Miami Vice,’ ‘Sliders,’ ‘Dharma & Greg,’ and essayed ‘Leo’ in ‘That ‘70s Show’ (1999-2002, 2005-2006). He was voice-actor for ‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil’ (2011), ‘Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie’ (2013) and ‘Zootopia’ (2016).
Chong was celebrity-participant in ‘Dancing with the Stars’ (2014), and ‘The Masked Singer’ (2019). He featured in TV-series ‘South Park,’ ‘George Lopez,’ ‘Cubed,’ ‘Franklin & Bash,’ ‘The Millers,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Out of the Park’ and more. Recent movies he appeared in include ‘It’s Gawd!’ (2017), ‘Color out of Space’ (2019) and others.
After Hours is a dark comedy film, which tells the story of a New York office worker, who is invited for a late night date with a woman he just met. He agrees, but the date turns out to be eventually a nightmare.
Anthony, an unemployed drummer and stoner, leaves his parents and hitchhikes across the country with Pedro, who he befriended on the road. The buddy comedy film follows the duo's misadventures on the road. It opened to poor reviews at the time of its release but is now considered a cult classic.
After their friend gets arrested for killing a horse of the New York police, by feeding it junk food, three friends come up with a series of crazy schemes to bring him out of prison.
Cheech and Chong live in an old house, and due to their loud music, weed smoking, and slacker behavior, their neighbors are quite irritated. Things take a turn after they meet Cheech’s cousin from Texas.
Nathan Gardner moves his wife and his three children to his late father’s farm, after his wife undergoes a surgery. After a meteorite lands on their secluded farm, Nathan and his family find themselves battling against a mutant organism that starts to infect their bodies as well as their minds.
Set in a city inhabited by anthropomorphic mammals, Disney’s Zootopia tells the story of a rabbit police officer who collaborates with a red fox con artist to uncover a criminal conspiracy involving the disappearance of predators. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
Crysta, a tree fairy living in Australian rainforest FernGully, doesn’t believe that humans exist. When curious Crysta tries to find out more, she accidently shrinks a young logger Zak to fairy-size. Zak sees the forest beauty and realizes how the logging company is damaging the rainforest. He then joins the fairies to save FernGully from loggers and the evil pollution entity Hexxus.
Red Riding Hood is training with a secret group named Sister Hoods. However, she and the Wolf is soon called, in order to examine the sudden disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.
Tommy Chong Awards
| Winner | Best Comedy Recording | 1974 |
