This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and on today's bonus episode, it's the man with the best laugh in comedy, Ron Funches.

Ron was our third guest on this podcast all the way back in April of last year.

If you haven't listened to that episode, I highly recommend going back and checking it out. I had so much fun talking

to Ron then that I asked him to come back on the show this week to talk about two very exciting

projects he has coming up. First up is his new game show for Quibi called Nice One.

It is kind of like At Midnight Meets Roast Battle with an entirely positive Ron Funch's

spin.

Then on September 5th, Ron is performing a live stream stand-up special called Awakening

that features all new material that he's been developing since his last

special giggle fit premiered on Comedy Central last year. In this episode, we get into all of that,

plus his thoughts on Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., and more. We had a great talk that I

think you are going to really enjoy, so let's get to it.

Here's me with Ron Funchitz. How's it go, man? Oh, I'm good. Excellent, actually. I feel

really good today. And we'll let you know, I like you so much. You're the only interview I've done

in the last two days where I'm not playing video games

at the same time. Is that true? Does that include Joe Rogan? Well, I guess no. You're right.

I lied. You're good, man. You were one of our very first guests on this podcast, like over a year

ago, and you've been so supportive ever since so I really appreciate that yeah I still

listen to you know depending on the gas I still listen yeah yeah I like it I like your interview style

oh thanks man so what's going on how's your how's your quarantine life been over these last five months or so

you know up and down you started off resisting everything and thinking like, you know, oh, by June, this will be over, everything will be fine. And then that came around and then there was like that new extended order. And that kind of knocked the wind out of myself for a while. I was depressed for a little bit, overeaten for a little bit. Then kind of buckle back down.

I decided to do my own little live stream show, which made me go practice and do other shows.

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