Ron Funches on Talk Is Jericho - EP286

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ron Funches is super funny, and a super WWE fan! He's talking "Undateable" on Hulu and what it's like filming live. He's got stories about breaking into the comedy scene in Portland, Oregon, advice for dealing with hecklers, memories of the worst and best gigs he's ever done, and how he landed on the "Kroll Show" on Comedy Central. He's also sharing wrestling stories - from his favorite matches to his favorite wrestlers to the one legend he actually got to meet & the one he's hoping to meet! And there there's his love of Lucille Ball...

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0:00.0	TALKY'S JERICAL BEAMING TALKY'S JERICAL
0:07.0	TALKY'S JERICAL MAMA TALKY'S BEAM
0:13.0	All right, welcome to Talkers Jericho. This is the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll today actor comedian wrestling fan
0:21.0	and extraordinaire Ron Funches is on Talkers Jericho. You know him from I'm DATABL. He's also on the third season of Transparent on Amazon
0:29.0	or if you're a Comedy Central fan, maybe you know him from the Nick Kroll show or how about the fact that he's won at midnight 18 times.
0:36.0	Yeah, I'm a one-time at midnight champion. He is an 18-time at midnight champion hosted by Chris Hardwick, of course.
0:43.0	He's very funny, very talented, very much a wrestling fan. He grew up in Chicago and went to a lot of shows.
0:48.0	We'll hear some of his favorites. He also is a regular at the PWG shows in Los Angeles. They're becoming an event in the LA area.
0:55.0	Lots of celebrities showing up at those shows including Ron. Ron's going to tell us why he thinks they're so popular.
1:00.0	He's also talking about his comedy influences. You might be surprised who made his list and who didn't.
1:05.0	And what it's like to film Undatable completely and legitimately live. It's crazy. Speaking of crazy, speaking of funny,
1:13.0	team Tiger Awesome has some crazy and funny to share with you in the form of their new podcast, the team Tiger Awesome Show.
1:19.0	And I was their guest on the newest episode that came out last Sunday and we made up wrestling gimmicks.
1:25.0	Wait to hear Mondays. Wait to hear mine. Timmy the Carpenter. Go to the team Tiger Awesome Show to hear Mike Russell that I created called Timmy the Carpenter,
1:34.0	who actually was a real guy. You need to go check this out. It's a guy that we trained with Lance and I trained with named Victor Wilde,
1:40.0	who had an idea to do a game called Timmy the Carpenter. And that was my made up character.
1:46.0	Truly does a big, big guy tiny man.
1:50.0	Gage does what is he called? Dandy, Dandy McGee or something like that. Awesome. Dandy McGee.
1:59.0	And Mondays is a hobo street bump. Funny, funny stuff. You got to check this out on the team Tiger Awesome Show.
2:06.0	And if you like the show and you listen to it, cut a promo as your favorite, as your favorite creator wrestler from Team Tiger Awesome Show.
2:16.0	You can be bow archer. That's another one. And I will retweet it and I will post it. And you could you could win a prize as well.
2:23.0	So go to at TT Awesome or at talk is Jericho on the Twitter after you listen to the creator wrestler episode with me and Monday and truly engage.
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