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Cheech Chong's Last Movie Movie Clip - When You First Start Off With Comedy

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00:00Basically, we were broke, both of us.

00:03And I started phoning around, looking for a gig for us to play,

00:07and I found the Red Fox Club.

00:10Cheeks and Chana.

00:13We hadn't figured out what to do when we first walked out.

00:17There was no routine.

00:18He talked, I talked, we overlapped each other.

00:21So very quickly, we figured out that I would disappear and get

00:25ready for the first character that I was going to do.

00:27And Tommy would start to develop this.

00:29Stand-up routine.

00:31Here was a club that we could play every night,

00:33work on our act every night.

00:35It was like going to the gym.

00:36The more you went to the gym, the stronger you got.

00:39Any Chicanos here tonight around there?

00:41They smuggling you?

00:43Anyways, it's really hip being Chicano nowadays.

00:46I'm really glad it came around.

00:47I was really having a tough time faking being Filipino.

00:51Didn't have a gold tooth, and it was all over.

00:54I used to get nervous before I went on stage in the early days.

01:01And Tommy didn't make it any easier when he would announce it.

01:04I was dodging the draft and wanted by the FBI.

01:07He thought it was funny.

01:08I didn't think it was so funny.

01:10Comedians back in the day, they were treated like dirt.

01:14They weren't respected.

01:16They respected the stripper that brought in the people,

01:19but they never had no respect for a guy

01:21that was trying to make everybody laugh.

01:25When you first start off with comedy, you write a set.

01:29Six months later, you need a new set, and it never stops.

01:33It just keeps digging and digging and digging.

01:35And it's like working in a coal mine.