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This video contains the only commercially released footage of Cheech and Chong's stand-up act. Recorded in 1978 at Spanky's comedy club just after filming Up in Smoke, it runs 50 minutes. They even comment about not needing stand-up anymore if Up in Smoke makes money. Two videos were filmed that night: Perform and Perform Again.
You have to see the "square" 1970s clothing Tommy is wearing—it's bizarre.
The Perform video contains the following sketches:
• Chinese Restaurant - Chong is a waiter at a Chinese restaurant dealing with a Superfly-esque black customer.
• Queer Wars - Similar to a bit in Still Smokin, but rawer and funnier. Two gays with a Star Wars theme use dildo guns to fight bad guys.
• Low Rider - An onstage re-enactment of the legendary first scene from Up in Smoke. Cheech wears the same outfit (minus the hat), starting with Low Rider playing and ending with Chong vomiting in Cheech's lap as a cop asks for his name—RALPHHHHH! Features different dialogue and more jokes not in the film.
• Harry Palms - Similar to a bit in Still Smokin, but with more improvisation.
• Ralph and Herbie - Cheech and Chong act as dogs, a bit from the Sleeping Beauty album and others.