Week one of the S.B. LOL Comedy Festival started Thursday, October 8, and lasts all weekend long. You got the inside scoop on three renowned comedians (Kira Soltanovich, Brad Williams, and Eric Schwartz), and now it’s time for a sneak peek with some of next week’s headliners: Cheech Marin, Chris Hardwick, and Andy Daly.
Cheech Marin
The use of humor to shift human perception is its highest function. Cheech Marin, who got his start as part of the Grammy Award–winning comedy duo Cheech and Chong, understands how to use comedy for the highest good — because, of course, he’s in favor of occasionally getting high — that is, “as long as it’s legal,” he told me recently in a phone interview. Cheech and Chong’s classic film Up in Smokef invented the genre “stoner comedy,” and its influence still permeates the film industry today. Now, the legend himself is on his way to the LOL Festival to host Legally Brown Tu/2.0 at the Arlington Theatre on Friday, October 16, at 8 p.m.