Outlaw Bobby Capps Reports On Cheech Marin And Friends In Colusa

Cheech and Chong Dot Com correspondent, Bobby Capps, provided commentary on Friday’s Cheech Marin & Friends, Up in Jokes show in Colusa, California.

Mexican Americans
By Bobby Capps

Hold the harvesters folks! The tiny farm community of Colusa, California hosted a night out with Cheech Marin and Friends.

Colusa Indian Casino is located 70 miles North of Sacramento. Colusa isn’t well known for its night life so many of the comedians asked, "Where are we again?"

The night opened up with the house band performing for a sold out crowd. Standing room wasn’t even available. The crowd of mostly older folk roared as Cheech Marin entered the stage to the tune of "Low Rider", the legendary War song heard at the beginning of “Up in Smoke.”

Cheech joked about the local farm community (750+ were on-hand) and their nighttime activity with sheep. That’s right, sheep! Cheech, along with three entertaining friends, were a better hit than any 20th century homemade bong could give you. The crowd was non-stop laughter and wolf howls. Cheech made fun of everything from his recent divorce to his days of old Cheech and Chong music.

The first comedian was Gilbert Esquivel whom, in this Outlaws opinion, was the best of the night. Gilbert laid down the Mexican version of Jeff Foxworthy's, "You might be a redneck if..." One of his jokes was “if your house has four cars in the driveway and none of them work, you might be a Mexican.”

Second up was Loni Love. The gorgeous plus-sized black woman laid down the law about racial innuendo and middle eastern problems. Loni made reference to the Michael Richards comedy fiasco. She said, "Michael is my friend. He ain't No Racist! You know what? He ain't no comedian either!"

Last up was the one name comedian “Sebastian.” The style was slow jam comedy and the crowd seemed to slide into a snooze fest.

Between each act, Cheech livened it back up with well-known songs such as Mexican Americans, Me and My Old Lady and closed the show with Born in East L.A.

The bad part of the night was where I had to be escorted to my seat by the Colusa Casino hostess (see photo, this photo is on my fridge). Boy, the things I do for the world of entertainment. lol.

All-in-all the show must go on and was well worth seeing. As always, Cheech was in great form and we had a good time.