#148: Ron Funches

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome comedian/writer/actor Ron Funches, to the Upper West Side! Ron discusses his upbringing in Chicago, moving to Oregon and starting anew, getting fired from Chuck E. Cheese, performing backyard wrestling, starting a family in his early 20's and raising an autistic son, doing open mics and learning to trust his own voice, all while dreaming of a life in entertainment outside of the Northwest. We talk about the comedy scene in Oregon, what he learned as a supporting act, finding management, working with like-minded, good people in comedy, getting hired to write sketches on Kroll Show, and what the festival circuit has to offer. Ron speaks on what Hollywood attitudes are really like, how splits his time between acting and stand-up, working with Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Conan O'Brien, and Larry David, as well as musicians like Bun B, Justin Timberlake, Michael Christmas, getting confused for The Weeknd or Big K.R.I.T. and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff.
0:00.6	Hey, Eric.
0:01.2	How are you?
0:01.6	I'm pretty good.
0:02.1	How are you?
0:02.6	I am hanging in there.
0:03.6	Thank you.
0:04.4	Jeff, people have been asking us for our take on the Cam versus Mace beef. Is it a beef? We have zero takes. Zero takes because it's not really a beef if Cam says it's not a beef. We have nothing to say about that. What we do want to talk about, though, is the diplomats reunion show that went down...
0:23.8	Oh... We have nothing to say about that. What we do want to talk about, though, is the diplomats reunion show that went down, oh, a few days before Thanksgiving.
0:26.5	Right.
0:26.9	Spotify was putting together their rap caviar, New York show with ASAP mob and Don Q and...
0:35.2	A reunited diplomats.
0:36.5	So you're going to get Jim, you're going to get Cam, you're going to get freaky, and you're going to get Jules.
0:41.7	All on one stage, everyone was really looking forward to it, especially these two guys.
0:45.3	Yeah, because they were actually posting about each other and they were doing stuff that made it seem like it was a reunion.
0:53.0	We were very excited.
0:55.7	We were put on the list. we went down there two hours late but that's fine like you know this is dipset time right yeah
1:01.1	we showed up and it was 2008 it was it was about 2008 cops outside like yeah all of the new york
1:10.1	police department was there with these barricades,
1:13.8	pushing people into the streets, getting them away from Hammerstein Ballroom,
1:17.2	and trying to, I guess, organize when it just seemed like it was just chaos from the beginning.
1:23.5	Yeah, because they tell you to get off the sidewalk and then they push you into the street,
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