Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Paenga-whāwhā 2, 2009, i karangatia a Funnye mō te wā tuatahi "ki te kōrero ki tētahi whare karakia mā, nui i New York", i te Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, he whakaminenga Reform. I kīia e ia ko tana "Tāwhiritanga Broadway". I whakapā atu te whakaminenga ki ngā whakaminenga Hurai pango ki te whakanui i te rā o Martin Luther King Jr., ā, tata ki te hauwhā o te hunga whakarongo he Hurai pango. Funnye kōrero e pā ana ki Kingi ko Barack Obama, te po i mua i te
Ko te whakatūnga o te tuarua hei peresideni. I te rā i muri mai ka haere ia me tōna whānau ki Washington ki te whakauru atu ki ngā huihuinga whakatūnga a Obama.