Funky Kong is a recurring Kong in the Donkey Kong franchise. He first appears in Donkey Kong Country. While portrayed as an easygoing surfer, Funky is a very skilled mechanic, creating many vehicles and other inventions from limited materials, namely barrels. In most of his appearances, Funky operates a transportation service for the Kongs using one or more of his vehicles. Since Rare left the rights to the Donkey Kong franchise to Nintendo after being purchased by Microsoft in 2002, Funky Kong has occasionally appeared in spin-off Mario franchise titles as a playable character. The above text is from the Super Mario Wiki and is available under a Creative Commons license. Attribution must be provided through a list of authors or a link back to the original article. Source: https://www.mariowiki.com/Funky_Kong