Cheech and Chong Remember Working With Martin Scorsese: “He’s Kinda Short”
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are busily promoting their new film, Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie, which hit theaters on April 20. But in a Reddit AMA on April 24, they took a moment to reflect on their unlikely collaboration with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese — and how they recall that the director was “kinda short.”
Cheech and Chong appear in Scorsese’s 1985 cult comedy After Hours, which follows one man (Griffin Dunne) as he embarks on a hellish and surreal adventure through the fringes of New York City on one very, very long night. Cheech and Chong play a pair of cat burglars who break into a building where Dunne has been wrapped in papier mache and kept as a prisoner. They accidentally abduct Dunne, mistaking him for a sculpture — “the uglier the art, the more it’s worth,” Cheech quips as they load Dunne into a van and drive off.
In the AMA, Reddit user VolatSea asked the comedy duo, “Your performances in After Hours really adds an interesting depth to the film, what was it like working with Scorsese?”
Chong replied, “He’s kinda short,” while Cheech added, “But we overlooked that. But it really gave us the knowledge that he worked just like we did, ‘here’s the information we want you to get out’ which is pretty much our process.”
After Hours, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 13, 2025, was a financial bust upon release, but has developed a devoted fandom in recent decades.
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