Top 10 Sarah Palin Spoofs

How on earth did YouTube get by before Alaska governor Sarah Palin was tapped as the Republican vice-presidential candidate? Her public performances — and spoofs of those performances — have filled gigabytes of video space ever since. TIME surveys the cream of the crop

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Just two days after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin to the world, New York comedian Sara Benincasa created a video mocking the Alaska governor as an adorably inexperienced and unwitting hockey mom, complete with a Fargo-esque accent and a hilarious retelling of how she came to be "Big Daddy's" running mate: "It's a funny story. An older gentleman called me on the phone and said, 'My friend, I would like you to be my vice-presidential running mate.' And I said, 'Who is this?' "

Even more hilarious is the off-camera presence of Palin's campaign manger/makeup artist/personal stylist/eating coach/gun cleaner/La Leche League liason/cousin Dina Heath-Barr, who continually foils the rookie candidate by interrupting and contradicting her monologue ("You were an alderman ... You were a dogcatcher too, weren't ya? ... I think you've got to be elected to be a dogcatcher ... I think you just kidnapped some dogs, is what you did.")

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