text: And if he sometimes wandered into whimsy--that alluring comic swamp--and even farther , into mawkish sentimentality with Happiness Is a Warm Puppy , he more often executed that most difficult comic turn , being simultaneously funny and sweet .
  
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  He could sometimes be whimsical , but he was more often executing the difficult comic turn of being both funny and sweet at the same time .