{"id":122,"date":"2009-02-10T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:01:59","slug":"tributes-cheech-marin-on-the-kingfish-from-amos-n-andy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/tributes-cheech-marin-on-the-kingfish-from-amos-n-andy\/122\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheech Marin on &#8220;The Kingfish&#8221; from <em>Amos &#8216;n&#8217; Andy<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-122-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-cheechmarin-kingfish.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-cheechmarin-kingfish.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-cheechmarin-kingfish.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cheech Marin<\/strong>: Oh yeah well &#8220;Kingfish&#8221; was the, was the scammer and he was always trying to sell Andy Brown something, Andy Brown was the kind of slowest guy and he had somebody working for his din- and Kingfish was the president of Mystic Nights of the Sea Lodge all and, and Luther was trying to sell him a pair of binoculars and so he\u2019s looking at the binoculars and he\u2019s, \u201cHmm, see that building across the street?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYeah.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHmm, there\u2019s an ant crawling up that building.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 Got something in his mouth.\u00a0 Hmm, a crumb of bread.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, whole wheat.\u201d Just cracked me up.\u00a0 They just had the most absurd humor and I was kind of \u2013 black humor\u2019s real surreal.\u00a0 Sometimes very abstract.\u00a0 And I had caught onto that early because you know, I was so hammered by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-cheechmarin-kingfish.mp4 Cheech Marin: Oh yeah well &#8220;Kingfish&#8221; 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