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Birth name | Ronald Kyle Funches |
Born | Carson, California, U.S. [1] | March 12, 1983
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Website | ronfunches |
Ronald Kyle Funches (born March 12, 1983) is an American comedian and actor. Born in California, Funches spent his early life in Chicago before relocating to Salem, Oregon, as a teenager. He began his comedy career in Portland, Oregon, at age 23. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, he began appearing as a guest on several comedy series, including @midnight , Mulaney , and Kroll Show .
From 2014 to 2016, Funches starred as a regular on the NBC series Undateable , and in 2015, began performing as a voice actor on such series as BoJack Horseman , The Adventures of Puss in Boots , and Adventure Time . He subsequently performed the voice role of Cooper in the animated film Trolls (2016). He also had guest-starring roles on a number of television series, including Transparent (2016), Black-ish (2017), and reprised the role of Cooper in the Trolls spin-off series Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (2018).
Beginning in 2019, he began voicing the roles of King Shark in the DC Comics TV series Harley Quinn and Fox in the TBS/Adult Swim TV series Final Space . In 2020, Funches again reprised the role of Cooper in the sequel film Trolls World Tour . Starting in 2020, Funches voiced Ron on the Netflix series Hoops . In 2021, Funches began voicing Kevin in the FX series Poorly Drawn Lines .
Ronald Kyle Funches was born in Carson, California, [2] but spent his early life with his mother and sister in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [3] [1] Funches' mother was a social worker. [1] When he was 13 years old, he moved to Salem, Oregon, to live with his father, who was employed there as a pipefitter. [1]
He graduated from Douglas McKay High School in Salem, where he took English courses, [3] [1] and was inspired by writers such as Molière, J. D. Salinger, William Faulkner, and Erich Maria Remarque. [1] After high school, Funches relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he worked a variety of jobs, including at a bank call center and as a clerk at a Grocery Outlet store. [1] [3]
Funches began pursuing stand-up comedy at the age of 23 in Portland. [3] [1] After having a small role on an episode of Portlandia in 2011, [4] [5] [6] 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 series Crash & Bernstein (2013), and worked as a writer on The Eric Andre Show and Comedy Central's The Half Hour (2014). Also in 2014, Funches performed as a regular comic panelist on Chelsea Lately . [7] [8] [9]
Beginning in 2014, Funches appeared in several episodes of Drunk History , and in 2015, performed numerous guest-starring voice roles on the animated series BoJack Horseman , The Adventures of Puss in Boots , and Adventure Time .
Funches subsequently starred as Shelly on the NBC comedy series Undateable from 2014 until the series' conclusion in 2016. [10] [3] [11] Funches also had a supporting role in the 2015 comedy film Get Hard .
In 2016, he voiced the role of Cooper in the animated film Trolls , [12] Also in 2016, Funches guest-starred on numerous series, such as Another Period , Take My Wife , and Transparent .
Beginning in 2019, he began voicing the role of King Shark in the DC Comics TV series Harley Quinn and the role of Fox in the TBS series Final Space . He played the recurring character "Funchy" in season 3 (2019) of the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan . Funches reprised his role of Cooper in the Trolls sequel, Trolls World Tour (2020). Funches also voiced Shag Rugg on the 2021 HBO Max television series Jellystone!. [13]
On April 20, 2021, Funches became host of a new spinoff of the iconic Chopped cooking competition series. The new show, streaming on Discovery+, called Chopped: 420 where the cheftestants have to make cannabis infused gourmet meals. [14]
Funches has cited Lucille Ball, Dave Chappelle, and Mitch Hedberg as major influences on his comedy. [15] 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." [16]
Funches had his first son, Malcolm, when he was 20 years old. [17] He mentions Malcolm's autism in his comedy and welcomes fans sharing their stories with him. [3] [11] [18] [19] He married Christina Dawn in August 2020. They had a son, Funches's second child, in 2022. [20] [21] [22] In October 2022, they separated. [23] [24]
Funches is an avid video gamer [25] [26] and wrestling fan, having taken classes at a wrestling school for a few months. [27] Eventually Funches made his in-ring debut at GCW in September 2021 in a match against Tony Deppen that featured Paul Scheer as his cornerman and interference from Danhausen. [28] In August 2022 he started his wrestling podcast One Fall with Ron Funches. [29]
He told Adam Carolla that he had once weighed 360 pounds. Funches said that over a few years he lost around 140 pounds. [30]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2014 | Night Night with Ron Funches | Himself | Writer; short film for Funny or Die | |
Night Night with Ron Funches Ep 2 | ||||
2015 | Movie Mind Machine | Ron | Short film | |
Get Hard | Jojo | [31] | ||
2016 | Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie | Member of The Fat Boys | [32] | |
Trolls | Cooper | Voice role | [12] | |
2017 | Once Upon a Time in Venice | Mocha | [33] | |
Killing Hasselhoff | Bill | |||
2019 | Jexi | Craig | ||
Noelle | Elf Mortimer | |||
6 Underground | Blaine's cousin / the funeral speaker | |||
Lucky | Sammy | Voice role | ||
2020 | Sylvie's Love | Tank | ||
Underlings | Sal | Voice role | ||
Trolls World Tour | Cooper | |||
The One and Only Ivan | Murphy | |||
Golden Arm | Carl | |||
2021 | Dark Web: Cicada 3301 | Avi | ||
2022 | Cheaper by the Dozen | Seth's Neighbor | ||
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience | Les Pants | Voice role | ||
2023 | 80 for Brady | Chip | ||
Under the Boardwalk | Anemone | Voice role | ||
Trolls Band Together | Cooper | |||
Good Burger 2 | Jimathy | |||
2024 | Inside Out 2 | Bloofy | Voice role; also performed "Bloofy's House Theme Song" | [34] [35] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2011 | Portlandia | Baseball Player | Episode: "Baseball" | |
2013 | Crash & Bernstein | Roland | 5 episodes | |
Dead Kevin | Homeless King | Episode: "How Not to Rob a Liquor Store" | ||
New Girl | Street Musician | Episode: "First Date" | ||
2014 | Mulaney | Rodney aka Tall Tucan | Episode: "It's a Wonderful Home Alone" | |
The Eric Andre Show | — | Writer Episode: "Seth Rogen; Asa Akira" | ||
Selfie | Wayne | Episode: "Traumatic Party Stress Disorder" | ||
The Half Hour | Himself | Stand-up special | ||
Bob's Burgers | Horseplay / Patrick | 2 episodes Voice role | [36] | |
Enlisted | Private Huggins | Episode: "Pilot" | ||
2014–2015 | Kroll Show | Himself | Actor: 4 episodes Writer: 11 episodes | |
2014–2016 | Undateable | Shelly | 36 episodes | |
Drunk History | Various | 3 episodes | [36] | |
2015 | Cougar Town | Marty | Episode: "To Find a Friend" | |
BoJack Horseman | Levi | Episode: "Chickens" Voice role | ||
The Adventures of Puss in Boots | Fartholomew Fishflinger | Episode: "Mouse" Voice role | ||
Adventure Time | The Fool | 2 episodes in Stakes Voice role | ||
2016 | Great Minds with Dan Harmon | Idi Amin | Episode: "Idi Amin" | |
2016 | Another Period | Hamish's Cellmate | 2 episodes | |
The Lion Guard | Ajabu | Episode: "The Imaginary Okapi" Voice role | ||
Harmonquest | Captain Ribs Sanchez | Episode: "Across the Dernum Sea" | ||
Cupcake Wars | Himself | Episode: "Josie and the Pussycats" | [31] | |
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh | Sharzod | 45 episodes Voice role | ||
Take My Wife | Ron | Episode: "Headliner" | ||
Transparent | Fredrick | Episode: "Elizah" | ||
2017 | Drive Share | Nicky Nitro | Episode: "The Light Source" | |
Black-ish | Ledarius | Episode: "I'm a Survivor" | [36] | |
The Goldbergs | Froy | 2 episodes | [36] | |
Powerless | Ron | 12 episodes | [36] | |
We Bare Bears | Wyatt | Episode: "Road Trip" Voice role | ||
Future Man | Ray | Episode: "Pilot" | ||
Trolls Holiday | Cooper | TV special Voice role | ||
2018 | A.P. Bio | Hans | 2 episodes | [36] |
Talk Show The Game Show | Himself | 1 episodes | [37] | |
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes | Sparko | 4 episodes Voice role | ||
2018–2019 | Trolls: The Beat Goes On! | Cooper | 65 episodes Voice role | [36] |
2019 | Infinity Train | Khaki Bottoms | Episode: "The Ball Pit Car" Voice role | |
Man with a Plan | Funchy | 3 episodes | [36] | |
Twelve Forever | Manquin | 25 episodes Voice role | [36] | |
2019–2021 | Final Space | Fox | Voice role 18 episodes | |
2019–present | Harley Quinn | King Shark | 23 episodes Voice role | [36] |
2019 | Ron Funches: Giggle Fit | Himself | Stand-up special | |
2019–present | Crank Yankers | 2 episodes Voice role | [38] | |
2020 | Central Park | Danny | Episode: "Squirrel, Interrupted" Voice role | |
Room 104 | Charlie | Episode: "Oh, Harry!" | ||
Hoops | Ron | 10 episodes Voice role | ||
The Last Blockbuster | Himself | |||
Nice One! | Host, writer | |||
Top Secret Videos [39] | ||||
Match Game | Episode: "Joel McHale, Amanda Seales, Ron Funches, Ana Gasteyer, Rob Huebel, Nikki Glasser" | |||
2020–2022 | Trolls: TrollsTopia | Cooper | 52 episodes Voice role | |
2021–present | The Great North | Jerry Shaw | Recurring Voice role | |
2021 | Nailed It! | Himself/Judge | Episode: "Burbank State Fair" | |
Chopped 420 | Himself/host | 5 episodes | ||
2021–present | Jellystone! | Shag Rugg, Astro, Hong Kong Phooey | Voice role | |
2021–2022 | Inside Job | Mothman | ||
2021 | Poorly Drawn Lines | Kevin | ||
Trolls: Holiday in Harmony | Cooper | TV special Voice role | ||
A Tale Dark & Grimm | Jacob | Voice role | ||
2022–present | Loot | Howard | Main role | |
2023–present | Rock Paper Scissors | Rock | Voice role | |
2024 | After Midnight | Himself | Episode #26 | |
Ariel | Delfino | Episode: "The Singing Dolphin" Voice role |
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