In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we are start out with an appetizer looking at how the slipping on a banana peel comedy gag got started.

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Next up, we have the main course discussing what it was actually like to be a court jester and some examples of some rather famous ones, as well as what killed the profession.

As for the desert for today, we look at what it was like to be a medieval executioner and how people got the gig.

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