Funny Man

 is a series of stranger missions in Red Dead Redemption.

Story
In the Benedict Point train station, John Marston meets a writer visiting from Manhattan. The man is enamored with Marston's cold, cowboy appearance and informs him that he is out to document the West. This conversation serves as a prelude to a number of instances in which Marston saves the adventurer from bandit camps.

During the final encounter he says he's going to give up making jokes and maybe become a musician, or a war reporter, implying that he hasn't learned anything about being almost killed multiple times.

Walkthrough
After accepting the mission, you will need to free the writer from different gang hideouts, the last being in Mexico.
 * The first such location is inside the mines of Gaptooth Breach. It would be wise to finish the gang hideout here before freeing him.
 * The second is inside the southern tip of Pike's Basin, just to the west of MacFarlane's Ranch. He is being held in an area without any gang members, so clearing the hideout isn't completely necessary.
 * The third and final encounter is within the Tesoro Azul gang hideout, on the roof of a house. This time you definitely want to clear the gang members out before freeing him. (or go to the South wall outside and jump up to the left of the building and go up the ladder, without killing anyone)

Trivia

 * If the mission is completed by Jack Marston in 1914, his suggestion to become a war reporter may indicate he may want to cover World War I.