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 are running a small ice cream business, but actually their business is just a cover for selling high-grade marijuana. Although they manage to make a fortune, things get complicated because they were unaware that the police have been tailing them.
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.
Yellowbeard is an adventure action comedy film which tells the story of infamous pirate Yellowbeard, who breaks out of prison. The only thing on his mind now is recovering the treasure that he buried a long time ago. However, the problem is that his map has been tattooed on the head of his son. Things seem even worse because a number of rivals are also planning to beat him to the treasure.
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.
Still Smokin is a musical comedy film which tells the story of Cheech and Chong, two stoners who receive tickets to attend a film festival. Things get complicated when at the festival, Cheech is mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Chong is mistaken to be Dolly Parton. As the duo continue to roll more joints, things get even more hilarious.
Jay and Silent Bob lose the rights to their names after being defeated in a court case by Saban Films. Determined to take revenge against the company, they set off to Los Angeles to stop the shooting of the film that they are producing.
As a punishment, a group of misfits and slackers are asked to write a letter to the President explaining the failures of the education system. Things get interesting when the President actually loves it. The kids are therefore sent to Washington DC, in order to meet the President and explain to him in detail what is wrong with their current education system. However, things don’t go as expected.
The Wash is a comedy film which tells the story of two roommates working at a car wash, who need to keep their differences aside and get back their boss, when he gets kidnapped.
After a successful career in movies, comedian Pauly Shore stars in the lead role in a series where he plays the slacker son of a millionaire. However, his career begins to sink when the series turns out to be a commercial and critical failure. Soon his friends and even his girlfriend refuse to see him, and Shore is reduced to living in his mother’s attic. However, he is soon visited by the ghost of his mentor, who encourages him to fake his own death in order to boost the popularity in his films and merchandise.
McHale is a retired naval commander who discovers Major Vladikov, a former enemy, who is planning to destroy the Carribean Island. In order to stop him, he teams up with a group of misfit sailors, to fight his former nemesis.
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 |
