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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Things get very weird on today's tour through the Cabinet.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm
0:08.7	and Mild.
0:13.0	Our world is full of the unexplainable.
0:16.3	And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,
0:22.2	just waiting for us to explore.
0:25.4	Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.
0:37.0	Comedy is often maligned as a lesser form of entertainment when compared with other genres,
0:41.9	such as drama.
0:43.4	The office actor Steve Carell once said, I don't think about comedy and drama as separate
0:47.8	genres.
0:48.8	It's about trying to make it as truthful as you can.
0:51.9	It's a paraphrase the late Edmund Gwynn who played Santa Claus in 1947's Miracle on
0:56.8	34th Street.
0:58.6	Dying is easy.
0:59.6	Comedy is hard.
1:02.4	Stand up can help us deal with difficult real-world issues by showing them in a more humorous
1:06.5	light.
1:07.5	sitcoms often depicted exaggerated but honest scenarios regarding parenting and marriage
1:13.0	to show us that we're all going through the same things and just trying to get by.
1:17.9	Curiosity is perfect for lampooning those at the top and knocking them down a peg or two.
1:23.2	And when it comes to parody, one man stands above all of them.
1:27.3	Weird Al Yankovic.
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