He eventually won a spot in the Warner Bros. Sitcom Writers Workshop, and later joined the writing staff of the Fox Broadcasting series The Great Defender, starring Michael Rispoli, later a Sopranos cast-member.
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In 2006, he wrote and was a producer of the film Brooklyn Rules, directed by Michael Corrente.
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His last episode on The Sopranos, "Members Only," in which he played a major role, won an Emmy award for Best Writing in a Drama Series in 2006 for producer/writer Terence Winter, which Funaro discussed on Alycia Kaback's radio show on CBS, The "It" Factor.
The episode received wide critical acclaim, particularly for Michael Pitt's performance and Terence Winter's writing.