Jimmy Saint

 is a Minor character and Stranger featured in Red Dead Redemption. He appears in and gives the player the Stranger side-mission &quot;Funny Man&quot;.

Background
Saint is a naive journalist from the American East Coast, writing for a magazine based out of the state of New York. He is traveling through the American West to gather material to write an article on the region. He is most commonly known as Jimmy or the "Funny Man".

Red Dead Redemption
He is first encountered at Benedict Point. In the game, the player saves him from numerous gang hideouts scattered over the map. The first hideout is Gaptooth Breach, then Pike's Basin and finally Tesoro Azul. After being saved for the last time, he expresses regret for coming to New Austin and says he will pursue other ventures.

Undead Nightmare


He appears as a 'Boss' in Tumbleweed's Cemetery. He rises from his grave screaming in a zombified voice "I'm gonna have the time of my life, sport!". His grave stone states that he died in 1911 from a gunshot wound and bears the phrase: "A humorist who rarely had the last laugh".

Trivia

 * His stranger mission is used to first introduce players to Gang Hideouts.
 * He expresses the ignorant stereotypes that the East had of the Wild West at the time.
 * Despite not being particularly funny, he seems to be a comedian also hence the stranger mission name and in a newspaper article in the Blackwater Ledger.
 * His name most likely a reference to the character Saint Jimmy in the album American Idiot, by Green Day. He also says that he will have the time of his life, which is also a song by Green Day (Time of Your life or Good Riddance).
 * He may be an allusion to Ambrose Bierce, a vitriolic satirist who disappeared in Mexico in the early 20th century.

Achievements/Trophies
Jimmy Saint