Cheech Marin

Personal context

Summary

Cheech Marin is a comedian and actor known for the Cheech & Chong comedy duo, the film Born in East L.A., and roles in film and television. His comedy has often drawn on stoner humor and Mexican American culture. Since the 1980s, he has collected and promoted Chicano art, helped tour his collection nationally, and helped establish the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside. Marin has said Chicano identity motivated his art advocacy and that he wants Chicanos to recognize themselves in the art and feel pride in their culture; no public statements on party politics, DEI, or other activist causes are on record.