You're listening to Comedy Central.

He's one of the most influential figures of his generation.

A political strategist with the cunning of a fox and the charisma of a salted slug.

But what does he really have to grin about?

This is the daily showography of Mitch McConnell.

No lips, no soul, no problem.

Mitch McConnell was born in small town Alabama as Addison Mitchell McConnell,

a teenage TikTok ass name if I've ever heard one.

His family owned a funeral home where he learned to smile from the clients.

And at age 2, Mitch faced his first and only personal challenge,

which he would later recall in a campaign ad.

When I was a child and my dad was in World War II, I got polio.

I recovered, but my family almost went broke.

That's why I've introduced a bill to make sure health care is available to all Kentucky families.

McConnell recovered completely from both the polio and the desire to give people health care.

But tragedy soon struck again when he was infected with something even worse.

Early onset politician.

But young Mitch was not the arch conservative of today.

He was pro-union, pro-choice, and he attended Martin Luther King's March on Washington.

Weird, right? Maybe he just went to file a noise complaint.

By the 1970s, Mitch McConnell had begun his slow but steady rise through the ranks of the Republican establishment.

And in 1984, he made a long shot bid for the United States Senate.

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