Cheech and Chong.

When the counter-culture was beginning to form Cheech and Chong stepped in to poke fun of it. Best known on their comedy records and stand-up bits, and later in their movies Cheech and Chong played off their contrasting personalities: Chong the irrepressible slow hippie-musician who's always three steps behind what's going on; Cheech as the opportunistic and street-wise latino who acts like he's where it's all happening (his custom car says 'love machine' etched in the glass).

A comedy act that was steeped in drug culture from the 1970s, their back-and-forth bits sparked a knowing reefer-infused chemistry that both poked fun at straight culture above and their own counter culture from below. While the cops were working feverishly to bring them down and haul them to jail, the duo were too stoned or unaware to escape their clutches, only to 'luck out' at the last moment and escape.