Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te 2 o Paenga-whāwhā 2009, i karangatia a Funnye mō te wā tuatahi "ki te kōrero ki tētahi whare karakia māwhero i New York", ki 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. I kōrero a Funnye mō King rāua ko Barack Obama, i te pō i mua i te whakarewatanga o te mea whakamutunga
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.