Ron Funches
Funches in 2015
Born	Ronald Kyle Funches (1983-03-12)March 12, 1983 (age 42) Carson, California, U.S.[1]
Children	2
Comedy career
Years active	2006–present
Medium	Stand-up television film
Genres	Observational comedy black comedy surreal humor insult comedy sarcasm satire deadpan
Subjects	African-American culture American politics human behavior pop culture current events autism fatherhood marijuana
Website	ronfunches.com

Ronald Kyle Funches (born March 12, 1983) is an American comedian and actor. Born inCalifornia, Funches spent his early life inChicago before relocating toSalem, Oregon,^[2][3] as a teenager. He began his comedy career inPortland, Oregon, at age 23. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, he began appearing as a guest on several comedy series, including@midnight,Mulaney, andKroll Show.

From 2014 to 2016, Funches starred as a regular on theNBC seriesUndateable, and in 2015, began performing as a voice actor on such series asBoJack Horseman,The Adventures of Puss in Boots, andAdventure Time. He subsequently performed the voice role of Cooper in the animated filmTrolls (2016). He also had guest-starring roles on a number of television series, includingTransparent (2016),Black-ish (2017), and reprised the role of Cooper in theTrolls spin-off seriesTrolls: The Beat Goes On! (2018).

Beginning in 2019, he began voicing the roles ofKing Shark in the DC Comics TV seriesHarley Quinn and Fox in theTBS/Adult Swim TV seriesFinal Space. In 2020, Funches again reprised the role of Cooper in the sequel filmTrolls World Tour. Starting in 2020, Funches voiced Ron on the Netflix seriesHoops. In 2021, Funches began voicing Kevin in the FX seriesPoorly Drawn Lines.

Ronald Kyle Funches was born inCarson, California,^[4] but spent his early life with his mother and sister in theWoodlawn neighborhood ofChicago,Illinois.^[5][1] Funches' mother was asocial worker.^[1] When he was 13 years old, he moved toSalem, Oregon, to live with his father, who was employed there as apipefitter.^[1]

He graduated fromDouglas McKay High School in Salem, where he tookEnglish courses,^[5][1] and was inspired by writers such asMolière,J. D. Salinger,William Faulkner, andErich Maria Remarque.^[1] After high school, Funches relocated toPortland, Oregon, where he worked a variety of jobs, including at a bank call center and as a clerk at aGrocery Outlet store.^[1][5]

Funches began pursuing stand-up comedy at the age of 23 in Portland.^[5][1] After having a small role on an episode ofPortlandia in 2011,^[6][7][8] he relocated to Los Angeles in 2012.^[1] Beginning in 2013, he was a regular panelist on the comedy series@midnight, had a recurring role in the comedy seriesCrash & Bernstein (2013), and worked as a writer onThe Eric Andre Show andComedy Central'sThe Half Hour (2014). Also in 2014, Funches performed as a regular comic panelist onChelsea Lately.^[9][10][11]

Beginning in 2014, Funches appeared in several episodes ofDrunk History, and in 2015, performed numerous guest-starring voice roles on the animated seriesBoJack Horseman,The Adventures of Puss in Boots, andAdventure Time.

Funches subsequently starred as Shelly on the NBC comedy seriesUndateable from 2014 until the series' conclusion in 2016.^[12][5][13] Funches also had a supporting role in the 2015 comedy filmGet Hard.

In 2016, he voiced the role of Cooper in the animated filmTrolls,^[14] Also in 2016, Funches guest-starred on numerous series, such asAnother Period,Take My Wife, andTransparent.

Beginning in 2019, he began voicing the role ofKing Shark in the DC Comics TV seriesHarley Quinn and the role of Fox in the TBS seriesFinal Space. He played the recurring character "Funchy" in season 3 (2019) of the CBS sitcomMan with a Plan. Funches reprised his role of Cooper in theTrolls sequel,Trolls World Tour (2020). Funches also voicedShag Rugg on the 2021HBO Max television seriesJellystone!^[15] and Rock on the 2024Nickelodeon television seriesRock Paper Scissors.

In 2021, Funches hosted a spin-off of theFood Network seriesChopped—Chopped 420—forDiscovery+.^[16]

Funches has citedLucille Ball,Dave Chappelle, andMitch Hedberg as major influences on his comedy.^[17] Commenting on Ball, he said: "I Love Lucy was kind of my introduction to the world of comedy in general. And when you look at the history of Lucille Ball, and the work that she did for women in Hollywood, having her own production company, and also showing an interracial marriage on TV in the ’50s, to me, she’s just one of my biggest influences overall as a human being. That's what it means to be a professional and what it means to stand up for yourself even though interracial marriage has nothing to do with a career."^[18]

Funches had his first son, Malcolm, when he was 20 years old.^[19] He mentions Malcolm'sautism in his standup routine and welcomes fans sharing their stories with him.^{[5][13][20][21]} He married Christina Dawn in August 2020. They had a son, Funches's second child, in 2022.^[22][23][24] In October 2022, they separated.^[25][26]

Funches is an avidvideo gamer^[27][28] andwrestling fan, having taken classes at a wrestling school for a few months.^[29] Eventually Funches made his in-ring debut atGCW in September 2021 in a match againstTony Deppen that featuredPaul Scheer as his cornerman and interference fromDanhausen.^[30] In August 2022 he started his wrestling podcastOne Fall with Ron Funches.^[31]

He toldAdam Carolla that he had once weighed 360 pounds. Funches said that over a few years he lost around 140 pounds.^[32]

• DDT Pro-Wrestling
  • Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)^[43]

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