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While promoting the upcoming animated film Monsters Vs. Aliens on the Today Show this morning, Stephen Colbert proudly detailed his latest stunt. NASA is hosting an online contest to name a portion of the space station currently called Node 3. The Colbert Nation has successfully put “COLBERT” in the lead by over half a million votes. Additional (and boring, in our opinion) contenders include “Legacy,” “Serenity,” and “Earthrise.” With voting ending tomorrow, and a promise from NASA that they’ll honor the voting results, it looks like Colbert may have entered a new level of stardom. Diddy will be so jealous.

Scandalist readers rewarded Tina Fey for her brilliant impersonation of Sarah Palin (not to mention her work on 30 Rock) by crowning her funniest of the year.Tina’s SNL mate, Amy Poehler, took second place.

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You might think that presidential politics and a crashing economy would have kept folks from laughing in 2008, but thanks to these four comedians - intentionally or not - there were plenty of chuckles to go around. Amy Poehler kept reaming the headlines on SNL’s Weekend Update all the way through her very noticeable pregnancy, while Steve Colbert showed TV pundits just who had the lock on “truthiness.” Tina Fey got a perfect chance to bring new audiences to the underwatched sitcom 30 Rock when a certain politician with a physical resemblance leapt into the limelight: Sarah Palin. And while Palin might not be trying to crack us up, how could would we celebrate these three jokesters without acknowledging the failed VP nominee that provided them with so much great material?

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