Ron Funches Breaks Down His Joy-Infused Style of Comedy, the Influence of Weed on his Art, His Love of Wrestling, and More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Comedian Ron Funches talks with Talib and Jasmin about the origins of his joyful and unique style of comedy, and how his love of cannabis has influenced what he does creatively. The writer, actor, and comedian also discusses finding strength in his son’s experience with autism, and speaks on his own extraordinary weight-loss journey, and his passion for wrestling. Plus: finding new avenues of expression via the Twitch platform and voice acting (BoJack Horseman, Trolls, Hoops, and more).

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. I'm glad that you like my type of hip-hop
0:23.8	that makes me feel seen and heard. But you also famously like ignorant rap.
0:28.1	Oh, yeah. Which I do too. I like a lot of ignorant shit. Oh, yeah. Even the JZ song,
0:32.0	ignorant shit, I actually like that song a lot. You can be both. You said that juicy J is
0:36.8	the black Willie Wonka. That's fucking hilarious. Yeah. Because he gave out scholarships for
0:42.4	people who twerk. So your relationship with hip-hop is very interesting. You said that you knew
0:49.2	you were a success when ludicrous tweeted out one of your jokes. Do you remember the joke?
0:54.1	Yeah. It's a joke about him that I wrote. Yeah, that I still believe that this day that I said
0:59.1	that ludicrous is like the squirt soda of hip-hop. Because I'm always never looking for it. But when I
1:06.4	try it, I'm like, oh, this is a pretty refreshing. He's like a fresh. He's like a fresh.
1:12.4	You just happen upon a squirt. You just happen upon it at a barbecue. Right. You're like,
1:17.3	oh, this is in the cooler. In the cooler. Next to a doctor pepper. Yes.
1:22.6	Yeah, man. I love juicy J because you may say no to ratchet pussy, but juicy J can't. No, I love,
1:30.4	man, I just love longevity. I'm favorite line. People who kind of get cooler, but with age and still
1:35.5	be themselves and like, you know, can tap into that younger group and help them out. Like, I always
1:41.8	love that type of stuff. So I love juicy J. Most of the rappers that I've been, the last few rappers
1:47.4	I really start liking either when the Jell are died. So I'm trying to like not get on. I'm like,
1:53.2	I'm a bad look. So I don't want to be away from Atlanta rappers. Yeah. Are they going through it?
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