Screen and Comedy
Cannabis as a genre. Cheech and Chong inventing an entire kind of film in 1978, Dazed and Confused, Friday, Half Baked, The Big Lebowski, Pineapple Express and Harold and Kumar, the television that followed, and the stand-up comedy that has been working the same material for fifty years.
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46 moments in this segment.
- - Up in Smoke - the fattest joint ever, official clip. The 'Labrador' joint scene from Up in Smoke, one of the most quoted sequences in stoner cinema.
- - Up in Smoke: the police bust scene. An official studio clip from the 1978 feature in which the police raid a party, played for farce against the era's real enforcement climate.
- - Up in Smoke - original 1978 theatrical trailer. The trailer for Cheech and Chong's first feature, the film that created the stoner-comedy genre and grossed over $100 million.
- - Cheech and Chong's Next Movie - official trailer. Studio trailer for the 1980 sequel, released by Shout! Studios from the original elements.
- - Nice Dreams 1981 trailer. The trailer for the third Cheech and Chong feature, in which the duo sell cannabis from an ice cream truck.
- - Nice Dreams: the under the table scene. An official studio clip from the 1981 Cheech and Chong feature.
- - Nice Dreams original 35mm trailer scan. A 4K scan of the original 35mm theatrical trailer for the 1981 Cheech and Chong film, transferred from the film print.
- - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Spicoli orders a pizza. Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in the 1982 Amy Heckerling film, the performance that fixed the surfer-stoner type in American film.
- - Still Smokin' 1983 trailer. The trailer for the fourth Cheech and Chong feature, in which the pair are stranded at an Amsterdam film festival.
- - Dazed and Confused - official trailer. Richard Linklater's 1993 last-day-of-school film, set in 1976 Texas, that made Matthew McConaughey a star.
- - Friday - official trailer. Trailer for the 1995 Ice Cube and Chris Tucker comedy set over one day on a South Central porch, made for about $3.5 million.
- - Half Baked: a cheap date with Mary Jane. An official studio clip from the 1998 comedy, one of the film's best-known sequences.
- - The Big Lebowski official trailer. The trailer for the Coen brothers' 1998 film, whose protagonist made the perpetually stoned slacker a lasting American archetype.
- - Half Baked - official trailer. Trailer for the 1998 Dave Chappelle comedy he co-wrote with Neal Brennan; a box-office disappointment that became a cult staple on video.
- - Next Friday - official trailer. Trailer for the 2000 sequel, in which Ice Cube's Craig moves to the suburbs and the franchise expands.
- - How High - official trailer. Trailer for the 2001 Method Man and Redman comedy about two smokers who ace their way into Harvard.
- - How High - pot ghosts scene. The scene that sets up the film's premise, in which smoking a friend's ashes summons him as a study partner.
- - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - official trailer. Trailer for Kevin Smith's 2001 film centred on the two dealers who had recurred through his View Askew films since Clerks.
- - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - original theatrical trailer. Warner Bros.' own trailer for the 2004 comedy, notable for putting two Asian-American leads at the centre of a mainstream stoner film.
- - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - the White Castle scene. The film's closing payoff, the destination that drives the entire 2004 road comedy.
- - Weeds season one trailer. The trailer for the first season of Showtime's Weeds, which ran from 2005 to 2012 and followed a suburban widow who begins dealing cannabis.
- - Grandma's Boy trailer. The theatrical trailer for the 2006 Happy Madison comedy, scanned from an original trailer negative.
- - Katt Williams on weed, from Pimp Chronicles. The bit from Katt Williams's 2006 HBO special Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1, one of the most-quoted stand-up routines about cannabis.
- - Super High Me - SXSW trailer. Trailer for Doug Benson's 2007 documentary, in which the comedian smoked continuously for thirty days after thirty days sober.
- - Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay theatrical trailer. The official trailer for the 2008 sequel, which turned the franchise toward post-September 11 satire.
- - Pineapple Express - official trailer. Sony's trailer for the 2008 Judd Apatow-produced action comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco, which gave a real cannabis strain name to a mainstream hit.
- - Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - official trailer. Trailer for the 2008 sequel, which turned the stoner road movie into a post-9/11 satire.
- - Weeds season six trailer. The trailer for the sixth season of the Showtime series, by which point Nancy Botwin's dealing had escalated into cartel territory.
- - Ted official trailer. The trailer for Seth MacFarlane's 2012 comedy about a man and his foul-mouthed, cannabis-smoking teddy bear, the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of its time.
- - Broad City - Nature's Pocket. An official Comedy Central clip from Broad City, the series that made casual, unremarkable cannabis use a feature of young women's comedy.
- - Behind the scenes of Friday, twenty years on. Entertainment Tonight revisits its 1995 set visit with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker for the film's twentieth anniversary.
- - Bill Hicks on marijuana. A routine from the late comedian's official channel; Hicks's drug material was a central strand of his 1980s and early-1990s act.
- - Bill Hicks on drugs. Hicks's best-known drug bit, from his official channel, arguing that the war on drugs was itself the absurdity.
- - Ted 2 official trailer. Universal's trailer for the 2015 sequel, in which the bear's legal personhood becomes the plot.
- - Broad City - Underaged Bongs. Official Comedy Central clip from Broad City season two.
- - Disjointed - official trailer. Trailer for the 2017 Netflix sitcom starring Kathy Bates as a lifelong activist running a legal dispensary.
- - Broad City: when Abbi met Ilana. Comedy Central's official supercut of the origin of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer's friendship in Broad City, a series that made casual cannabis use ordinary television.
- - Disjointed: the 420 musical singalong teaser. Netflix's official teaser for the second part of Disjointed, built around a 420-themed musical number.
- - Cheech and Chong on forty years of Up in Smoke. An IMDb interview with the duo at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles marking the fortieth anniversary of Up in Smoke.
- - Tommy Chong on his DEA sting, from This Is Not Happening. Chong tells the story of Operation Pipe Dreams, the 2003 federal case that sent him to prison for nine months for selling bongs.
- - Dazed and Confused: Matthew McConaughey's breakout role. Universal Pictures compiles the Wooderson scenes that launched Matthew McConaughey's career in Linklater's 1993 film.
- - Katt Williams on smoking with Snoop Dogg. A stand-up routine from Katt Williams released through Netflix's official comedy channel.
- - Dazed and Confused: rituals and parties. An extended official preview from Universal covering the hazing rituals and the moon-tower party at the centre of Linklater's film.
- - Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, extended CBS interview. A long-form 2025 CBS Sunday Morning interview with the duo reflecting on their career and the culture they helped create.
- - Behind the scenes on Up in Smoke, with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. A retrospective on the making of the 1978 film, with both principals discussing production.
- - How Cheech and Chong reunited after twenty years. The pair recount their long breakup and the reunion that Tommy Chong's son helped broker, in an interview on All The Smoke.
