Talk:Tommy Chong

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Contents 1 Marijuana section 2 So where is 'The Dogpatch'? 3 His multiracial/ethnic/cultural humor 4 Legal Trouble 5 Marcus Chong?

[edit] Marijuana section

it says: "However, in I Chong: Meditations from the Joint, he wrote that he has been on a "pot fast" since his arrest in 2003, and will not smoke again until pot is legal in the U.S. He also says that he has never been nearly as much of a stoner as the character he portrayed in Cheech and Chong's routines and films."

can someone make sure this is correct, on the Colbert Report yesterday he said he was high, he may have been kidding but i can't imagine that he really quit smoking.

[edit] So where is 'The Dogpatch'?

I am familiar with the Calgary area and have never heard this term. Anyone know what district that was?

Same here (and I'm the guy who put that part in, from an interview with him). I remember a "rhubarb patch" down near the entrance to the zoo... All I can think of, and it's pure conjecture, is that back when, the poor Chinese tended to live near the smallish Chinatown, i.e. on the south bank of the river, near center st. And it was definitely a "dogpatch" type of area. Like i said, just a total guess. Gzuckier 13:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The Veterans Hospital (Col. Belcher) was located on the corner of 4th St. SW and 12th Ave. SW. Fishhead64 04:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] His multiracial/ethnic/cultural humor

Tommy Chong is a Chinese-Canadian, a British-Canadian and according to some biographers, he may have Native American (or native Canadian) ancestry by his mother. I knew in some minor western movie roles, Chong played an American Indian role, since the movie producers noticed he fits the right role to play a stereotypical, but resemblant of an American Indian. Back in the late 1950's, the young Tommy Chong was into rock and roll back then had a heavily black (African American) and southern white rhythm in the early forms of this music. In 1960, Tommy formed an amateur rock band called "The Colors", because all the five band members are "persons of color" or racial minorities: Blacks, "yellow" Chinese, "Red" or "brown" American Indians and Arabs or "olive-skinned" Europeans we associate as "white" or "tan". Chong and his rock band toured across Canada and the western US, when Chong encountered white, black, Latino, Asian and Jewish fans he came to know...he sure had great contact with "persons of color" and minorities back in the racially troubled/ethnic bigoted time like the 1960s. Before he returned to Canada, Chong developed his "counter-culture" drug-enhanced comedy routine by his impressions of a "cool, hip, black person" inside a white or Asian man, but not the same way like crude or loud Lenny Bruce but more like an easy and rebellious George Carlin was tasteful, inoffensive and hilarious to get Chong's acting career started. + 63.3.14.129 00:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Isn't he currently incarcerated?

Nope--DavidShankBone 18:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legal Trouble

In the first paragraph of this section, it says that Operation Pipe Dreams (sic) took place in 2003 and that Chong was sentenced on September 11, 2003. In the penultimate paragraph, though, it says that Operation Pipe Dream occurred in 2005 and attributes his being a target of the operation to the release of the biographical film a/k/a Tommy Chong (which, in and of itself, needs clarification). Clearly, there's a problem here. Gaussgauss 02:12, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marcus Chong?

These statements from these two articles don't make sense about Marcus Chong being adopted by the Chong family.

Tommy Chong article: "Marcus (b. Marcus Wyatt, 1967) adopted the stage name Marcus Chong and was rumored to have been adopted by Chong, but this is false."

Marcus Chong article: "Chong was born Marcus Wyatt in Seattle, Washington, and was adopted by the family of comedian Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong fame"

So which statement is true? Or is it vandalism? Examples like this is exactly why a lot of other people don't think wikipedia is a good primary source of information. --Pilot expert (talk) 04:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)