Cheech & Chong: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin (spoken vocals).

Cheech & Chong's second album made the Billboard Top 5 and cemented Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong alongside George Carlin as the preeminent comedians of the stoner generation. Designed to resemble the packaging for a popular brand of rolling papers, BIG BAMBU laid its allegiances bare from the outset. (The record was initially packaged with a rolling paper the size of an LP cover, and every high-school kid of the day claimed to know this one dude who actually used it.) However, the funniest material on the disc may be its least drug-oriented. In particular, the hysterical "Sister Mary Elephant," a reminiscence of Catholic-school youth, and the lengthy "television medley" (originally one whole side of the record) includes pothead jokes in the context of a broader satire of American pop culture. Overall, BIG BAMBU is Cheech & Chong's funniest and most consistent album.

Rolling Stone (8/17/72, p.56) - "...it's pretty funny that Cheech and Chong have gotten a lot funnier since their first LP..."