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

Tina Fey on SNL

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Once you get past the hugely pregnant Amy Poehler playing Katie Couric, this skit from Sept. 27 highlighted the dead-on impersonation Tina Fey debuted in the now legendary Sarah Palin–Hillary Clinton press-conference skit that started it all. But listen closely (and maybe check a couple of transcripts) and you'll notice how Fey keeps things simple and uses what real life has presented to her. With just a few comical twists, Fey doesn't stray very far from the transcript of the actual Couric interview — she could do this act in her sleep.

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