It’s about time. The rest of the country is catching on to something we’d already known here in Portland for a long time: Ron Funches is fucking awesome! Now that three different publications of varying repute have called him “a comic to watch,” it’s time for us to just accept that 2013 is going to be the Year of Ron Funches. Esquire said so, LA Weekly said so, and even a weird little fan-site called Serial Optimist thinks so.
Yeah, it could mean that as the world gets a little more Funches, we get him a little less around here. But we’ll manage. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Seriously. He’s, like, the nicest guy you’ll ever meet.
He shouldn’t rest until someone makes a cereal called Honey Bunches of Mother Fucking Funches.
or a workout video: “Quit Munching Your Lunches and do Crunches with Funches, You Fat Asshole.”
Does this mean we get the first rights to “I saw him before he was cool” bragadoccio? I bet all my money on Ed Foreman and his talk show being the new hotness when he moved to LA to seek his fortune. How I was proven wrong, his was probably the fastest “Later PDX, I’m going to Hollywood!” to “Can I get my regular time slot back at Dantes?” I’ve ever seen..