Born in California, Funches spent his early life in Chicago before relocating to Salem, Oregon, as a teenager.

After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, he began appearing as a guest on several comedy series, including @midnight, Mulaney, and Kroll Show.

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.

[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.

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.

[14] Funches has cited Lucille Ball, Dave Chappelle, and Mitch Hedberg as major influences on his comedy.

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.

[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.