LisaNova gives Tina Fey and SNL some competition

SNL has so dominated the election comedy video sphere, with Tina Fey's perfect Sarah Palin and Queen Latifah's celebrity turn as Gwen Ifill, that it's easy to overlook comparably funny video coming from less glorified realms. But let's not! The talented YouTube chameleon LisaNova does a mean Sarah Palin of her own. And she can use curse words and "work blue," as the old-school comedians call it, which in this case pays off.

But because her stuff is gleefully uncensored I can't embed or link to her first and most hilarious Sarah Palin video, "Is McCain Palin's bitch?" in which McCain comes undone while begging Palin to join his ticket. It's got well over 2 million hits on YouTube.

Now, LisaNova is featuring on her channel an actor named Iman Crosson who does a Barack Obama impression that is almost as eerily accurate as Fey's Palin. Turns out Crosson was the winning Obama in Denny's presidential-candidate impersonation contest.

I got Crosson ( who usually goes by Iman) on the phone, and he explained that he'd been doing Obama videos on his own since he won the Denny's contest. LisaNova came across one and asked if he wanted to work with her. The result is the above clip, edited by LisaNova from Iman's original.

No doubt being promoted on LisaNova's channel helped it get on today's Most Viewed list on YouTube, with just over 100,000 views so far. Iman, who is 26 and just moved to California from New York, said he is an Obama supporter, which is one reason he tries to keep his videos PG-rated. “I want to make it funny without making it dirty," he said. "My ultimate goal is I would want him to be able to see the video and laugh.”

--Maria Russo

Comments

[Nikki]

"s eerily accurate as Fey's Palin" I agree. :)

[Cymande]

Lisa & Iman rock!!!