From Sarah Palin's bizarre resignation to Mark Sanford's infamous romp on the old "Appalachian Trail" to the scarring image of Tom DeLay shaking his booty on national TV, take a look back at the 20 funniest political moments of 2009.

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"President Obama and the first lady say they will not be exchanging gifts this Christmas. Mrs. Obama says they used to, but she got tired of Barack promising big things and not delivering." -Conan O'Brien

"A new poll shows that Tiger Woods' popularity has dropped from 85 percent to 33 percent. President Obama's popularity is also at 33 percent, but Tiger had more fun getting there." -Conan O'Brien

"It looks like Democrats have their 60 votes for healthcare. Harry Reid said the bill will save us hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, it would have, except for the hundreds of millions of dollars we had to pay to buy the 60 votes." -Jay Leno

"Of course, the storm is the big story, it is unbelievable. It actually paralyzed Washington more than Joe Lieberman. In fact, there was so much white powder in D.C., people thought Marion Barry was mayor again." -Jay Leno

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"Santa Claus, as you know, has a plan to fly around the world to deliver toys to all the good little boys and girls. Unfortunately, it's being blocked right now by Joe Lieberman." -Jimmy Kimmel

"Clearly, Lieberman has gone from having Joe-mentum to having Joe-mentia." -Stephen Colbert, on Joe Lieberman contradicting his earlier positions on health care reform

"Sarah Palin was photographed in Hawaii this week wearing a 'McCain for President' visor, but she had blacked out the letters of her former running mate's name. She was going to black out all of it, but halfway through, she quit." -Seth Meyers

"Hey, last night I watched Oprah's White House Christmas special. President Obama told Oprah he deserves a 'solid B-plus' for his first year in office. That's a big improvement from our last president, who for the last eight years received a 'WTF.'" -Jimmy Fallon

"The Golden Globe nominations came out yesterday. President Obama picked up a nomination for best Democrat acting like a Republican. So, congratulations." -Jay Leno

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From William Shatner's poetic salute to Sarah Palin to Jon Stewart's brilliant Glenn Beck impersonation to President Obama's debut as comedian in chief, here's a look back the year's 20 funniest political videos.

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In a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show, Sarah Palin finally got her revenge on master thespian William Shatner.

One of the most popular recurring segments on the show this year has been Shatner's dramatic readings of Palin's prose. It started with a poetic recitation of Palin's rambling farewell speech, followed by a reading of her nutty Tweets.

Last night, Shatner read excerpts from Palin's best-selling book, "Going Rogue."

"I looked down to see the moose's eyeballs lying in his palm, still warm from the critter's head," Shatner said, holding Palin's book in his hands.

Palin then strutted out on stage and turned the tables, performing her own bongo-beat reading from Shatner's autobiography, "Up Till Now."

"My whole being resonated with incredible feeling that I was going to go visit with an elephant, on a starless, moonlit night in Africa," Palin said, holding Shatner's book in her lap. "And I was going to visit that elephant in my underwear."

The audience howled, and Shatner and Palin departed the stage holding hands.

"It's good to finally see those two together," Conan quipped afterwards.

It was a funny moment for the oft-ridiculed Palin, who's been trying to rehabilitate her image on her book tour. Taken together with her comedy routine at last week's Gridiron dinner, Palin is clearly trying to show she's a good sport who can roll with the comedic punches (her spat with David Letterman notwithstanding).

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