Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1273 - Ron Funches
Uploaded: 2019-03-27T02:24:32.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1273 - Ron Funches' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1273 - Ron Funches

the difference that i'm learning between when i do comedy and acting is that
like
the last thing people really want to see from your own stage is you really get
emotional
yeah you know but when you act you have to go to that right away big difference
we're live
is it working oh my jesus right at the end of that a candid moment no i think
you're totally
right we're ron funches and i were talking about people getting mad first of
all welcome to the
show thanks for having me being here man appreciate it um we're talking about
people
getting getting emotional on stage if people get angry on stage that um it
shows the audience can
feel it you can say the exact same words and with with like a fake anger as we're
saying like brody
was really good at like he he would fake be mad at you and it was lewis black
yes yeah if you can see
those exact same words there's like a smile to it right you were saying that
there's a nod or a hint
hint of a nod yeah there's a little wink that lets you know that this isn't
this is a
joke i'm not really this mad about it and there's usually an absurdity about
the thing they're mad
at yes you know when you get we also see those sets sometimes when like someone's
recently broken
up with somebody or something and then you like you get that real anger and you
could say something
funny but like it's too fresh it's too real and people just don't want to hear
it they don't want to
hear it yeah it makes them feel uncomfortable we were talking about how weird
it is that that you could
actually have something that sounded so similar to that but we could tell the
difference like
with the exact same words you know with enthusiasm just something's off about
it something's off about
it that you know it's funny versus something's off about it where you know that
person's serious
and a person like i was we were just saying try to explain that to someone who
doesn't understand
english or doesn't understand human communication they'd be like what yeah how
can you tell like how can you
tell it's fake how can you tell it's fake anger yeah that's what makes i mean
the language so fun
it's not just about the words it's about the um intent behind the words yes and
body language and
posture and it was what makes comedy so deep you know i love about it oh for
sure yeah i mean there
what we're trying to do is convey intent we're trying to figure out a way to
sneak ideas into
your head where maybe you didn't see the punchline coming yeah it's a it's a
very strange art form like
one of the strangest ever so because it's a i've i always said it's almost like
a form of mass hypnosis
do you feel that sometimes like in the middle of the set and you're in the
groove yeah um a lot of
ways um one of um this is gonna get i mean you're a weird guy so it doesn't
matter
but it's gonna get weird in multiple ways but um when i first started my acting
class
um i was talking about that with my acting coach and i'd be like there's a
point like if my set's
really going well where i'm in the present moment of enjoying the set and
saying these words but at
the same time i'm i'm in the future thinking about what's coming next i'm surveying
everything that's
going around me and i'm also still kind of like judging myself off of what just
happened and so
this thing happens where you're kind of like time traveling in a way where you
don't exist in
any one space of time you you just kind of like remove yourself from that and
when your set's going
really well that's the thing that my girlfriend and i have talked about is that
you can hear these
sets and hear these jokes maybe you can see someone said multiple times but if
they're really good
oftentimes you don't remember the joke like how many times people go back and
quote a joke to you
and they've got it half wrong right because they've heard you a thousand times
but they don't
they got the joke half wrong because you've hypnotized them they don't even
remember it you know
yeah or some people remember you don't remember anymore yeah that's a weird one
yeah i've had
people come up to me and tell me a bit i go what what bit is that and they'll
tell me the bit i'm like
when is that from like 2014 i'm like i don't even remember that yeah just
something you were trying
out every now who knows yeah that's what's fun now for me as i'm getting a
little bit deeper i've been
coming up on 13 years is now now i'm getting the point where i'm like oh this
bit that i tried two
or three years ago now works yes yes and that that's really fun yeah i remember
that that time you're
essentially a phd in comedy when you got 10 years in like if you have do real
10 hard years of comedy
and then after that it seems like some some guys i mean it all depends on the
artist right but some
guys have their best work like 15 16 years in they're just starting to catch
their groove and figure
out what it is you know because it's uh it's only understood by the people who
practice it
it's it's understood in a way by a lot of people who are um comedy fans but
that's similar to like
me being a fan of music i don't know about music but i know what i like i know
when it sounds good
yeah i literally don't understand any of it so i think there's those kinds of
people too
yeah i mean comedy is such a yeah i mean that's what gets great when your peers
what's one thing
i loved about doing my special other than like people seeing it and being able
to like i wanted
to just make something and put something out had always done like small little
things or
guested on people's things and i was like oh i'm been doing comedy over 10
years and i'm
show a lot of potential i want to present a meal and when i put it out and and
like people's reaction
was great but in the but my peers is what really made me happy that when i
would get texts from from
like mulaney or for some people being like you are or just be like this was
your hour this is you
presenting who you are completely right and and that um when people can see the
stuff behind it when it's
not just like joke punchline joke punchline when people can see like oh you set
this up you did this
right your structure is right and then you just were yourself that's what
really makes me happy in comedy
yeah yeah you're a funny dude man i enjoy watching you i've watched you quite a
few times at the comedy
store now in the main room you're very very funny man it's cool to see a guy
like you put something
down that's representative of your real your real stand up what you're capable
of doing it's a nice
group to be a part of man and and you sound like you think about it a lot like
i really appreciate
that when people think about like what it is we're doing how do you do it yeah
how do you do it like
do you write do you uh write on paper do you write with a typewriter do you
just write we just have
ideas and you just keep working on them it's all a mix you know i like to say
like i'm uh more of
a fisher than a hunter like i'm not constantly like oh i need to write this
down every day i have the
structure but i'm constantly like i try to make my house that we're we're
constantly always joking
around with each other there's notebooks everywhere there's like little bowls
of like with um post-it
notes for me whenever i an idea comes i make sure i catch it and then i have to
make sure that i work
on it you know um that becomes a difference just constantly keeping myself in
motion so that i don't
um get stagnant and i don't just do the same 10 15 over and over again that
because you know that's
where i think especially um when i first moved out here it was always about
like oh i gotta show
these people that i'm good so i gotta do my best work my best work and i did
that for about three
months and i was like oh i don't have anything in the kitchen i don't have any
backup you know i
haven't been building anything up and so i learned very quickly i think the
comedy store has been the
best for me that just being like um having to like follow people who are
completely not like me
stylistically um having to follow people who i grew up watching you know i did
a um night the other
day where i had to follow it was sebastian and then ron white and then me and
then i was like
there's no i mean i'm like i'm confident in myself some people know me but when
it comes to that it's
like i'm the bottom of the totem pole on those three and i had to go out there
and just show them
that like i'm capable i'm not going to mess up the momentum here i'm just as
funny as these people you
just don't know me you haven't met me yet that's the thing i've been listening
to a lot like there's
rappers all the time but like this rapper two chains where he said like um i
just had to wait for for the
fans and for the game to learn what i already knew and that's where i'm
starting to feel now a new
confidence of like i know i'm good and i just have to wait for people to to
catch up on my wave and i
don't if they don't they don't if they do fine dude that's very jazz of you
two chains was the guy who debated nancy grace about weed remember that yeah
wait is gonna kill you
he outlasted her yeah that didn't work i mean it's hilarious now and see how
many states have
legalized it in full disclosure ron and i smoked marijuana with young jamie
before this podcast
as i do so many others it's finally the stigma slowly being removed slowly dude
i was a drug addict in the
90s when i started when i first started smoking weed i guess it was uh not even
the 90s it was like
what was it maybe 98 or 99 somewhere around then so when i started smoking weed
and uh you were a drug
addict you were a drug addict you're a marijuana user what's wrong with you man
get your together
i'm like man you guys don't get it there's two chains there he is nancy grace
they put the stuff
on the screen when it was going on how many marijuanas does it take to overdose
ah jamie send me that send me that that is a amazing quote did she really say
that no no no
it's a twitter user they put it it's like people were tweeting whatever hashtag
pot to blame oh my
god who is that twitter oh that twitter user oh styler tyler 2015 says oh tyler
2015 dude that but
is 2015 the day of the tweet it must be no that's probably just an account but
i don't know what
to happen it's a weird tweet though because there's a space in there so that
don't that
well yeah i think 2015 well whether i don't know i don't know yeah whoever's
whoever that is
congratulations made me laugh my ass off yeah that's funny but yeah that's why
i was a ridiculous
lady you know she's she obviously wasn't that healthy you know she wasn't uh
like a very uh fit
health conscious person she's worrying about weed she's just a crazy person she
was like paula dean
but she couldn't cook food there's marijuana it's gonna kill you wrong fun
chills people still like
that there's a lot of people like that in the middle of the country in the
middle of the country
sometimes it's still like you know there's a lot of stigma depend racially you
know yeah depends they
get the the soccer weed moms and everybody's like oh that's cool and then you
still get that like i
did a podcast the other day and the first comments were like either you're
yours too stoned you're not
doing i was like no i just did a bad job you know like i could have just done a
bad job it doesn't
have anything to do with me being stoned yeah like they know that if you were
sober the podcast would
have been way better yeah if you were sober man you wouldn't have been so weird
it's true it's all true
i used to have to go to this place the inglewood wellness center which was kind
of in a hood area
um a little bit sketchy and then uh while we're going there like within a year
or two later the guy
who ran it got shot and robbed there it's like that's how dangerous weed was
because you had
to do it all in cash they wouldn't let banks use checks they wouldn't i wouldn't
accept checks and
credit cards so everything was weird even though it