Ron Funches called Travis Kelce the golden retriever of football

Comedian Ron Funches you found a friend Travis Kelce last year — and now she’s sharing a glimpse of her friend’s cute personality.

Funches, 41, posted a clip from his Dec. 1, 2024 performance at the Kansas City Comedy Club via Instagram on Sunday, January 19, he revealed that he is the main fan of Kelce (35). The pair first clicked when Funches appeared as a guest star on Are you smarter than a celebrity?which is organized by Kelce, in October last year.

“I started doing this game show … and it’s hosted by Travis Kelce,” Funches told the crowd in the video. “We became friends, you know? And then he knew I was going to do a show the week of Thanksgiving and he hit me up on Instagram and said, ‘Hey man, you’re coming to my town, let me know if you need anything.'”

Calling the Kansas City Chiefs tight end “a golden retriever of a human being,” Funches explained how Kelce invited him to an NFL game while he was in town.

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Travis Kelce was the host with the most on Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? set — at least according to the game show’s two guest stars, Natasha Leggero and Ron Funches. “He brings his traditional golden retriever energy of a man who is super attractive but down to earth,” Funches, 41, said exclusively (…)

Funches explained: “He’s a good guy. He’s a nice guy and not only did he get us tickets (but) an hour and a half before the game, I got another little jingle on my phone. He just said, ‘Hey man, I’m getting ready to go into game mode, I’m going to turn my phone off, but before I do, I just want to make sure you’re okay.’

Kelce’s check-in impressed Funches to no end. “You prince charming mother f—er. He is amazing, he is a golden retriever of a human being. That’s probably why he’s so good at football. He just sees the ball and: ‘I have to go for it’.”

Funches briefly touched on the analogy during interview with My Weekly in October 2024, in which he discussed his Are you smarter than a celebrity? appeared and said, “(Kelce) brings his traditional golden retriever energy of a man who is super attractive yet down to earth. He’s a wonderful gentleman.”

At the comedy gig, Funches also made a crack about Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift35, whom he began dating in the summer of 2023. “I think he’s too good for her,” Funches joked in the clip, which drew loud laughter from his audience.

Funches’ praise for Kelce extended to the caption of his post, which read: “The rumors are true…@killatrav is a good guy.”

The Instagram clip came on the back of another public tribute that reiterated Kelce’s legendary status. According to former Chiefs running backs Charcandrick Westwho played for the Chiefs from 2014 to 2018, Kelce once fake arrive late at the Chiefs hotel so West, 33, would not be fined.

During the interview with ESPN It was posted on Tuesday, Jan. 21, West said he was stuck in traffic one evening while talking to Kelce on the phone and told him he would miss the team’s evening curfew.

When West got to the hotel, Kelce was standing outside waiting for him because he didn’t want West “to be the only one who got in trouble for being late.”