Brewer's Embarrassing Moment Goes Viral

Web video pokes fun at Gov.'s debate performance

Updated: Friday, 03 Sep 2010, 9:25 PM MST
Published : Friday, 03 Sep 2010, 5:45 PM MST

PHOENIX - By now, we've all heard about Governor Jan Brewer's rocky moments during her debate with Democratic candidate Terry Goddard.

While giving her opening statement, she lost her train of thought, froze for about 15 seconds, and later she walked out on a news conference.

It was bound to happen -- those gaffes have become the target of late night TV and internet impersonators.

The infamous moments are also being relived in a video posted on YouTube by the most famous impersonator of women in Phoenix. After just one day, it's already reached 15,000 hits and counting.

Richard Stevens plays Jan Brewer in the video gone viral.

"I thought it was doctored, that someone had taken those pauses and extended them to make the governor look bad," says Stevens. I thought it was hysterical’ I just watched it going through my closet, and saw my yellow jacket, and something just went off."

His parody of Brewer has since blown up on the internet.

"I feel bad for the governor but she is obviously a public servant and everybody deserves a little love but I am sorry, Democrat or Republican you got to agree that's funny."

And Stevens is not the only one mining comic gold.

Another web video shows the Governor's performance with helpful captions added in that say, "System error Governor rebooting now."

On CNN, James Carville chimed in, "I don't know maybe she was on some kind of medication or something."

And on Craig Ferguson's late talk show, he played the clip and said, "That actually makes me a bit sad seeing that."

Check it out for yourself! Watch the video clip below!

Here's another video from the Second City Network.

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