What The Cast Of Half Baked Looks Like Today

Comedian Dave Chappelle stars in Half Baked as Thurgood Jenkins, a marijuana aficionado and "master of the custodial arts" who turns to selling stolen weed in order to raise the money to bail his friend Kenny out of jail. Chappelle also appears in the film as the rap star "Sir Smoke-a-Lot."

After starring in Half Baked, Chappelle's career really took off. He recorded his first stand-up special for HBO in 2000, and had small roles in the films Blue Streak (1999) and Undercover Brother (2002). In 2003, his sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show premiered on Comedy Central, making him a household name. After three seasons, he left the series (and, briefly, the United States) over concerns about the direction the show had taken; he largely stayed out of the limelight until 2013, when he returned to stand-up touring. Chappelle filmed four comedy specials for Netflix in 2017, and won a Grammy Award in January 2018 for his comedy album The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas.

Comedian Jim Breuer delivers a memorable performance in Half Baked as Brian, a dim-witted and cheerful stoner with a penchant for tie-dye. Although Breuer really looks like he was high as a kite throughout the film, he later explained in his stand-up routines that his "drug face" is actually just what he looks like all the time.

Since his performance in Half Baked, Breuer has made only occasional movie or TV appearances as an actor. You may have spotted him in a couple of Chappelle's Show episodes reprising his role as Brian, or on the short-lived MTV series The Jim Breuer Show in the late '90s. From 2016-2017, Breuer appeared in a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait. In recent years, the comedian has mostly focused on his stand-up career — touring regularly, recording specials for television, and guesting on radio shows like The Howard Stern Show and Opie and Anthony. Since 2009, Breuer has hosted his own weekly radio show for SiriusXM on its "Raw Dog Comedy" channel.

For drug lord Samson Simpson (Clarence Williams III), Thurgood's "Mr. Nice Guy" weed delivery service presents a major problem. With Thurgood's superpowered weed taking the streets by storm, Samson's profits start to tank — so he threatens to kill Thurgood and his friends if they don't start paying him $20,000 a week. The cops coerce Thurgood into wearing a wire to his next meeting with Samson, setting the stage for a final showdown with the kingpin and his army of female bodyguards.

Although he plays a drug lord in Half Baked, Clarence Williams III's most widely remembered as undercover cop Lincoln Hayes in the 1960s TV series Mod Squad. He continued to act after Half Baked, and his Hollywood career now spans five decades of film and TV appearances. You may have spotted him in the Mystery Woman series of TV movies or as Harlem mob boss Bumpy Johnson in 2007's American Gangster with Denzel Washington (and the rest of the star-studded cast). More recently, Williams appeared as Huey Jarvis in a 2016 episode of the Fox music drama Empire.

When Brian gets fired from the record store where he works, Jan (Laura Silverman) shows solidarity with the stoner by walking out with him. The clueless Brian immediately asks her to be his girlfriend, which Jan politely declines because she's a lesbian. This doesn't hurt their budding friendship, though — and Jan joins Brian as an unofficial member of Thurgood's stoner crew for the rest of the film.

Although you might be more familiar with her younger sister, comedian Sarah Silverman, Laura Silverman is an accomplished talent in her own right. Along with appearances on her sister's show The Sarah Silverman Program, Laura has had roles in State and Main (2002), The King of Queens (2005-2006), and the HBO comedy series The Comeback (2005-2014) alongside Lisa Kudrow. Silverman is also a busy voice actor, providing voices for characters in everything from Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist to Metalocalypse. Since 2011, she's voiced several different characters on the popular Fox animated sitcom Bob's Burgers.

One of the most memorable parts of Half Baked involves Thurgood discussing the different kinds of weed smokers he encounters while running the Mr. Nice Guy business. Among these is the historian, or "you should've been there smoker," played by legendary country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Nelson regales Thurgood with tales of the '60s, back "when weed was grass" and even the cops were getting high. He isn't too pleased to learn that Thurgood's weed costs $60, launching into another story about the glory days "when a dime bag still cost a dime."

After Half Baked, Nelson continued to appear occasionally in films and TV shows — usually in minor roles or cameos as himself, such as in 2016's Zoolander 2. He's continued his acclaimed music career, releasing his 72nd studio album God's Problem Child in 2017. He's also a prolific author and has released a number of autobiographical and fiction books over the last 20 years. A longtime social activist and marijuana enthusiast, Nelson used the recent wave of marijuana legalization laws in different states to launch his own brand of weed called Willie's Reserve in 2015, and a chain of cannabis stores to sell it.  

Rapper and music producer Snoop Dogg appears in Half Baked as the "scavenger smoker," that one guy that never seems to have weed of their own, "but as soon as you smoke it, here they come." Thurgood and Brian reluctantly share their joint with Snoop, who proceeds to selfishly bogart the rest of it before making a hasty exit when Thurgood suggests he just buy some from them.

He may be best known for his work as a musician, but Snoop Dogg also has an obvious passion for performing onscreen. Since Half Baked, he's appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, both as himself and in other roles. Most notably, he had parts in Baby Boy (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Big Bang (2010), and Meet the Blacks (2016). Since 2011, Snoop has hosted his own parody news webseries, GGN: Snoop Dogg's Double G News Network. In 2017, he released his 15th studio album, Neva Left, and started hosting a reboot of the game show The Joker's Wild for TBS. He's slated to appear in the James Franco sci-fi film Future World in 2018.

Comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo makes an uncredited cameo in Half Baked as the "I'm only creative when I smoke smoker," an eccentric artist type Thurgood meets in her dimly-lit warehouse loft. Surrounded by piles of books and nervously petting her fluffy lap dog, Garofalo performs some of her strange freeform poetry for a reluctant Thurgood, who urges her to seek therapy for her obvious emotional issues.   

Along with her successful stand-up comedy career, Garofalo has continued to act regularly since her cameo in Half Baked. She's had significant roles in Felicity, Wet Hot American Summer, The West Wing, 24, and many other TV shows and films. Most recently, Garofalo reprised her role as Beth from Wet Hot American Summer in the Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.

Stand-up comedian and actor Steven Wright has a small but hilarious cameo in Half Baked as "the guy on the couch," who just showed up on Thurgood's couch one day and never left. Throughout the movie, this "guy" of unknown origin is a permanent fixture sleeping on the couch, only getting up once to use the bathroom and ask what month it is before giving Thurgood and his friends the idea to rob the pharmaceutical lab the next day.

Known for his lethargic tone of voice and deadpan humor, Wright hasn't done much acting since Half Baked, although he has landed a few occasional roles on shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Louie. Along with his active stand-up career, Wright is also an accomplished writer and producer — he has two Emmy nominations to his name for producing Louie from 2010 to 2015. Most recently, Wright provided the voice of "Mel Meh" in 2017's The Emoji Movie and had a recurring role on the dramedy web series Horace & Pete with Louis C.K., Alan Alda, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Laurie Metcalf and Jessica Lange.