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“I think these personal foibles of mine were tolerated among many as long as things were going well,” he said.

We share many attributes, among them: optimism, adaptability and the capacity to laugh at life’s foibles.

The Dodgers won the World Series last year with home runs and bullpen games and New York Yankees foibles, but not with starting pitching.

He seemed, in short—for all his personal eccentricities and foibles—normal.

He is an observational comedian, with an eye to the foibles of everyday life — long-term marriage, encounters at airports, the temptations of junk food — but he never pokes fun at anyone but himself.