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Funbearable

Funbearable

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Fun? Unbearable? Funbearable is a comedy podcast with Ray Harrington, Brad Rohrer, and Chuck Staton. With almost 138 combined years of live comedy and filmmaking experience, they tackle* pop culture, comedy, and existential dread. Basically, we're saying it's a podcast. *tickle (sorry)
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The Chuck and Brad Podcast

Chuck Staton, Brad Rohrer

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The unpredictable and passionate filmmaker Chuck Staton (from punk band Senior Discount) and the mild-mannered and softspoken Brad Rohrer (Senior Discount video star and Providence Improv Guild player) discuss/obsess over pop culture in all its forms, tell behind-the-scenes stories from their various projects, and interview other musicians, comedians, and artists.
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The Popcorn Colonels are Chuck Staton from Funbearable and Brian Ruppert from Reviewing History, sitting down in the TESD studio to get NERDIER about movies than the Funboy/RH co-hosts are willing to get!This week, Private BRAD ROHRER joins the colonels for a Trailer Park ep for Summer 2025, where we check out a bunch of new trailers and ask: are t…
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VidAfter an announcement of our upcoming summer live show, this week on Funbearable we are joined by our Narragansett Beer rep Cam Hutchinson! Cam is the one who reached out to the podcast to sponsor us, and he's here to tell us the story of the time he was demolished by two vehicles while he was on a scooter - perfect Funbear fodder! He also bring…
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VidRay deals with his son hitting milestones, and Ray becomes competitive. Brad never watched Free Willy. Chuck wonders what would overshadow Will Smith's Oscars Slap and bring him back to Hollywood dominance? Also: Edge of Tomorrow, the Cruel Intentions kiss, WWE's HLA, American Pie and ultimately - the death of the teen sex comedy. Video edit by …
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Vid This week Brad comes with a banger of a game! With A Minecraft Movie in theaters and The Last Of Us - Season 2 streaming this week, Brad's bringing video-game-movie-adaptations to the table! With "Video Game: The Movie: The Game" players get tasked with turning classic video games into feature films, while having to deal with specified genres, …
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As Dr. McFrankenstein's name continually comes up on Funbearable with more frequency, we thought the right thing to do was expose to the Funbears to his reign of terror. This was recorded in 2021 on the Chuck and Brad Podcast, where Chuck subjected Ray and Brad to what may be the most incredible/disturbing ad campaign in the history of advertising.…
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VidBrad's car turns on him with a car problem that no one has ever had before. Ray invents a new product. Chuck goes to a coffee shop that's themed around an actual real-life murderer. P.S. Brad also beeps his little fob, but it was too dirty to include before the P.S. Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com ----------------…
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Vid The boys get together to come up with totally real, plausible concepts for... you guessed it... the Funbearable Patreon! Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com ------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by NARRAGANSETT BEER! Check out Narragansett Beer nationally and make sure to check out the new Na…
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VidDisney's remake of "Snow White" is out in theatres, and with all the positivity surrounding it, the boys wanted to cash in on the fun! This time on our continuing Pitch Doctors segment - Ray, Brad and Chuck bring their OWN modernized Disney remakes to the tables! Snow White, Mickey, Ariel, Goofy, Uncle Remus, Donald Duck and MORE of your Disney …
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Vid⁠ The Popcorn Colonels are Chuck Staton and Brian Ruppert from Reviewing History, sitting down in the TESD studio to get NERDIER about movies than the Funboy/RH co-hosts are willing to get! We normally switch off feeds - one ep releases on the Funbearable feed, then one on the Reviewing History feed, and so on. But today - you're in for a DOUBLE…
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Vid We're reaching DEEP into our sacs on camera, ladies and gentlemen! We're hearing from YOU, the Funbears! We're getting into listener mail, and we're talking: police stations in malls, copycat fast food chains, unexplained ghostly voices, a revisit to Zombie Zoo, and an AI checks out Funbearable! Also Chuck thinks Paddington.... stinks!!! *pleas…
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VidDescription: See title. Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com ------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by NARRAGANSETT BEER! Check out Narragansett Beer nationally and make sure to check out the new Narragansett brewery in Providence, RI if you're in the New England area! narragansettbeer.com / @ga…
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Vid This week we talk: practice death pets, hermit crab tips and football team name origins. Does Chuck get into a fight at the Vintage Festival? Does Brad puff his own wiener whistle in front of his cohosts? Does Ray stay in a haunted hotel - or is there a horror convention downstairs? And finally - the WINNER of the Funbearable NFL preview episod…
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Vid **SPOILER ALERT: We talk in-depth about the semi-recent trilogy of Planet of the Apes movies: Rise, Dawn and War For. If you haven't seen them - go do it!!** This episode we talk: movies we loved that aged poorly, our Dream Pets, the brave furry souls who gave their lives to create Milo and Otis, Ray's Humor Tone Poems, and Brad's threat to bom…
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Vid Ladies and gentlemen, the angelic being behind the scenes of Funbearable joins the podcast; Craig Depina! Our trusty editor! This summer we did our 100th episode live, including a segment called "Strangers and Fiction" where we read a script ABOUT the Fun Boys, written by the cheapest writers available on Fiverr. Behind the scenes, we actually …
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Vid Brad's sandwich choices, our feelings on public shaming, sponsorship morality, and macabre sex toy origins - it's here. It's all here. Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com ------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by NARRAGANSETT BEER! Check out Narragansett Beer nationally and make sure to check …
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Vid Ladies and gentlemen, the ghostly visage behind the scenes of Funbearable joins the podcast; Craig Depina! Our trusty editor! This summer we did our 100th episode live, including a segment called "Strangers and Fiction" where we read a script ABOUT the Fun Boys, written by the cheapest writers available on Fiverr. Behind the scenes, we actually…
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Vid What if all your former partners gathered together and you were forced to give them a speech? What if cats could read at a 12th grade level? What would you do if you had two weeks before you knew you'd become significantly dumber Also: an upsetting revelation about Chuck's geography beliefs. Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbeara…
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Vid The boys are BACK to talk about the big topics of the day: Nicolas Cage movies, Axe Body Spray, and Godzilla (1998). This episode has it ALL! Ray's bad characters, the discussion of the insane film Megalopolis, and M. Night Shyamalan's newest movie Trap! Plus! Chuck goes to Syracuse to film the Stay Fresh Design Conference, put together by Tell…
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Vid Welp - it finally happened. Brad joins Chuck in Ray in their prestigious (and confusing) club. Ray gets criticized for his gay dessert in a way he'd never expect. Chuck goes to the screening for the unreleased movie Big Helium Dog starring Brian Quinn, Bryan Johnson, Kevin Smith, Michael Ian Black, the Broken Lizard cast and more. And finally -…
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VidYou shrieked and we squeaked; that's right ladies and gentlemen - we are dedicating this week to bringing you our favorites of 2024! It's PART TWO of the second annual FUNBAMMIES! In this episode, we give you our favorite TV shows, music, books, and moments of our personal lives from 2024. Revel in it!!! Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepo…
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Vid here⁠ You shrieked and we squeaked; that's right ladies and gentlemen - we're bringing you our favorites of 2024! It's the third annual FUNBAMMIES! In this episode, we give you our favorite movies, restaurants, video games and podcasts of 2024. Next episode we'll cover television, books music, and more! It's a double-dose of Funbones! Video edi…
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Vid We hope everybody enjoyed our TORRENT of holiday specials for the past few months but today we are BACK in our normal studio and we will ... CRACK THAT SAC! That's right we're jumping into listener mail to answer some questions from the Funbears, including: how many hot dogs are too many per year? Why did Brad BAN Chuck from Brad's "weekly emai…
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Vid It's a Christmas THROWBACK ladies and gentlemen! Travel back to the year of 2019 with us when Chuck, Brad, Ray, and their friends Brian Beaudoin and Liz Moniz put on a LIVE Christmas games podcast at the Galactic Theatre in Warren, RI! It's Team Chuck and Ray vs. Team Brad and Brian with Judge Liz Moniz presiding. This is a kooky ep from years …
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**NOTE: This is a very visual episode, so audio listeners may want to check out the video version** It's Christmas and the boys are sitting by a crackling fire, in a perfect yuletide scene... waiting for Santa! That's right - Christmas' most sought-after guest COULD BE on Funbearable this year! As the boys wait for Santa, they watch Chuck's "favori…
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Video If you thought we were stopping at ONE Christmas episode this year - you're nuts! Our second Christmas episode of 2024 kicks off with a big talk on accents in comedy where Brad REALLY shines! We talk about Ray meeting a reindeer wrangler from the North Pole, a study of optimism AND we bring a heartstopping holiday tale to the table. Ray sent …
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For the FINAL episode of our TESD Town Takeover, Jimmy the Hair Guy joins the Funboys to, once again, pitch brand new Christmas projects!Between Jimmy's Weird Al/Rob Zombie hybrid action movie, Brad's R-rated "Funbearable's Aussie Christmas" movie, Ray's Christmas variety show from all your favorite canceled celebrities, and Chuck's "Nightmare on 3…
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Vid here⁠ The boys are oozing with gratitude everyone. We love the Funbears and we're extremely thankful for everyone who is on this ride with us. We're dropping our Thanksgiving special a few days early this year to give the listeners more of a chance to check it out before the big turkey day. Please enjoy "Planet of the Gibbies," the follow-up to…
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Vid here⁠ It's a Funbearable bonus this as we do a liiiiiittle recap of our Thanksgiving specials before we get to this year's tomorrow. We've created the world's first OFFICIAL Thanksgiving mascot, Gibby the Thanksgiving Ghoul. Each year, one of our hosts writes a chapter in the story of Gibby, and surprises the other hosts live on-air with what's…
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Vid Happy Wednesday Funbears. The TESD Town Takeover rolls on with one of the main three - Bryan Johnson joins the show! We bring the king of judgement into the world of BOY CRIMES! One of our favorite segments rolls on where we take listener mail and figure out WHO is innocent and WHO is guilty of being a boy crimer! Video edit by Craig Depina / A…
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Vid TESD Town Takeover continues with PART TWO of sit down with ninja enforcer Brian Ruppert! Because the conversation turns to stories of passion and lust, we decided to turn this into the first iteration of Funbearable AFTER DARK!Turn back right now if you're an adult listener who for some reason can't deal with talk about procreation, the thing …
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Vid The TESD Takeover continues on Funbearable with Brian Ruppert, who has directed projects for Tell 'Em Steve Dave for over six years, hosts the show "License to Pod" on the TESD Patreon, and has his own podcast Reviewing History. Ruppert joins the boys to tell an insane story of a desperate man, dressed like a ninja, who assaults a degenerate an…
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As part of the TESD Takeover on Funbearable, we're reposting some "TESD Town History" episodes from the Chuck and Brad Podcast feed! Enjoy 'em! Original description: "Part one in a multi-part miniseries, "TESD Town History," Chuck sits down for an in-person one-on-one with Walt Flanagan of Tell 'Em Steve-Dave, inside Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Sta…
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Vid It's the first of our TESD Town Takeover on Funbearable, a series where we crossover with podcast legends Tell 'Em Steve Dave. Our inaugural guest is the one and only Brian Nashel, host of TESD's "Tales from Behind the Fake Counter" and director of AMC's Comic Book Men, amongst many other great shows. For the first time, Brian Nashel tells his …
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Vid It's the final episode of our Scare-a-thon! We sit down for the traditional yearly Funbearable Halloween special and focus on a special topic: haunted houses! We get into our personal experiences with haunted houses (including a terrifying revelation about Chuck's house in RI). Then Brad brings the top five haunted houses in the US to the table…
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Vid It's the first ever Funbearable Halloween Spooktacular LIVE in an intimate setting in the BOWELS of Providence, Rhode Island!HEAR the ruined horror movies, SEE the history of popular candy popquiz, and FEEL a brand new Funbearable original segment where the boys to blindly write an original Halloween story together to close the show! Video Edit…
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The Halloween season is in full effect!! We're reposting The Chuck and Brad Podcast (featuring Ray)'s 2019 Halloween special to continue our insane parade of spooky celebrations! Enjoy it! Original description: "We are joined by Ray Harrington this week, who THOUGHT he was in for a lighthearted discussion about Halloween. But conversations go where…
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Vid Chuck, Brad and Ray are STILL in Hamden, CT to sit down at Best Video to record the SECOND of this year's Funbearable "Child's Play" Franchise Flashback to take a stance against the recent cancellation of the "Chucky" streaming series! Brad and Chuck have watched ALL eight "Child's Play" movies and tell Ray about the entire voodoo-cursed histor…
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Vid Chuck, Brad and Ray head BACK -- AGAIN -- to Hamden, CT to sit down at Best Video to record the first of this year's Funbearable "Child's Play" Franchise Flashback to take a stance against the recent cancellation of the "Chucky" streaming series! Brad and Chuck have watched ALL eight "Child's Play" movies and tell Ray about the entire voodoo-cu…
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*Don't listen to this without watching the video first. We almost always try to make the pod accessible for audio listeners but this week, we got a special game going on - vid here* The Funboys are back in New Jersey for some filming with the Tell Em Steve Dave crew. And to begin our Halloween celebrations in 2024, we're kicking things off with the…
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Chuck and Brad are hitting the road! Chuck tried to get Brad the wonderful gift of seeing the Green Day tour this summer where they're playing "Dookie" and "American Idiot" in full - we recently told the story of how Brad had to miss the show due to covid.So the boys have an insane weekend going to the final NOFX shows in Brockton, MA and then to H…
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Vid It's here! Our Rick and Morty panel from NJ Contropolis with Chris Parnell and Harry Belden! Chuck and Brad talked to two of the Smith family voices about starting the show (Chris), joining the team (Harry), the audition process, and why Harry didn't end up playing Rick!Stick around after the panel for over 45 more minutes of podcasting with Ra…
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Video The air in the studio is THICK today, Funbears. The boys are recently off a joint bout of COVID! What did this summertime sickness cost the boys? Ray makes his own edits of the Deadpool movies for his son. Chuck barely escapes the corona and goes to Green Day's Dooke/American Idiot discography tour. Finally, the boys talk about the 100th epis…
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Vid WHOA! Jackass director Jeff Tremaine is coming out with a new show this week called called Nöthin' But A Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal. So we thought it'd be fun to release a "Chuck and Brad" episode from a few years back when we went to the Tribeca Film Festival to interview Jeff Tremaine and Patrick O'Dell about the relea…
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Brad tries and fails to get recognized at a Comic Convention. Chuck goes to see Limp Bizkit in New Jersey with Brian Ruppert. Ray rides in a limo to see Wayne Newton. Finally - the boys ask themselves the tough question; what bands do we REGRET passing up seeing? Ray provides C&B with some specialty items. The trio takes a thoughtful look at the Bi…
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Vid It's finally here. The highly (AKA: somewhat) anticipated milestone live show from Funbearable FINALLY hits the feed. We're talkin' eulogies. We're talkin' a brand new Strangers and Fiction. And finally, we're talkin' the biggest prank on Brad Rohrer that Chuck Staton and Ray Harrington have ever played. This is one for the books. Video edit by…
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Vid Ray went to Maine with his son and the boys are reminiscing about malls, arcades, and being cheeky, cheeky teens! Ray gets glossy-eyed about his hometown mall slowly passing away, Chuck goes to a dead mall in Colorado that his girlfriend won't admit is on its last legs, and Brad is forced to play through many arcade games. Lots of father/son bo…
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Vid All rise! The honorable (?) Judge Harrington, Judge Rohrer and Judge Staton presiding! It's Boy Crime Court and we're here to judge the Funbearable listeners for what they've done as sweet, sweet little lambs.What's the opposite of pleading the fifth? That's what we're doing this week, about crimes and sprees of the youthful variety. The episod…
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Surprise, Funbears!Since Derek Furtado made his first appearance on Funbearable recently, We're throwing out a bonus episode from the vault! This is an episode of the former podcast, With Ray And Derek, featuring Ray Harrington and Derek Furtado.Ray and Derek had planned on discussing something on the podcast, but when they start recording in the p…
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