Ron Funches Checks In
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Stand-up comedian and host of the ‘Gettin’ Better’ podcast Ron Funches is back on ‘The Last Laugh’ for this very special bonus episode. Since we last talked to Ron in April of last year about his Comedy Central special ‘Giggle Fit’ he has developed an all-new hour that he will be live-streaming on YouTube on Saturday, September 5th. He also has a new comedy game show called ‘Nice One’ premiering on Quibi next Monday, August 24th. In this catch-up chat, Ron talks about those projects and shares his thoughts on Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. and more.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:15.8 | Ron was our third guest on this podcast all the way back in April of last year. |
| 0:22.2 | If you haven't listened to that episode, I highly recommend going back and checking it out. I had so much fun talking |
| 0:28.2 | to Ron then that I asked him to come back on the show this week to talk about two very exciting |
| 0:33.2 | projects he has coming up. First up is his new game show for Quibi called Nice One. |
| 0:39.3 | It is kind of like At Midnight Meets Roast Battle with an entirely positive Ron Funch's |
| 0:44.6 | spin. |
| 0:45.8 | Then on September 5th, Ron is performing a live stream stand-up special called Awakening |
| 0:51.5 | that features all new material that he's been developing since his last |
| 0:55.6 | special giggle fit premiered on Comedy Central last year. In this episode, we get into all of that, |
| 1:02.4 | plus his thoughts on Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., and more. We had a great talk that I |
| 1:09.3 | think you are going to really enjoy, so let's get to it. |
| 1:12.9 | Here's me with Ron Funchitz. How's it go, man? Oh, I'm good. Excellent, actually. I feel |
| 1:20.3 | really good today. And we'll let you know, I like you so much. You're the only interview I've done |
| 1:25.1 | in the last two days where I'm not playing video games |
| 1:27.5 | at the same time. Is that true? Does that include Joe Rogan? Well, I guess no. You're right. |
| 1:33.9 | I lied. You're good, man. You were one of our very first guests on this podcast, like over a year |
| 1:40.8 | ago, and you've been so supportive ever since so I really appreciate that yeah I still |
| 1:45.1 | listen to you know depending on the gas I still listen yeah yeah I like it I like your interview style |
| 1:50.8 | oh thanks man so what's going on how's your how's your quarantine life been over these last five months or so |
| 1:56.6 | 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. |
| 2:18.2 | I decided to do my own little live stream show, which made me go practice and do other shows. |
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