1.   He was a very funny man.

2.   I phone carpenters and painters, and a funny little man with glasses to dig up my garden.

3.   Instead, the funny man who purportedly lives here is nowhere to be found.

4.   Mark Little is a funny man.

5.   He was going to miss the funny little man.

6.   The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being.

7.   In fact, he was very much the resident funny man in what was already a very amusing show indeed.