Sara Donnelly Benincasa is an American comedian

Comedian

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, writer and radio talk show host. She was a citizen journalist for MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 covering the 2008 United States Presidential Election as part of MTV’s 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign. In September 2008 she began producing a vlog in which she parodies the role of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin

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. She is particularly attentive to Palin's Midwestern/Alaska accent. These vlogs were uploaded to Benincasa's Youtube

YouTube

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 profile, until a partnership with Huffington Post's humor site 23/6

23/6

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 was established and the vlogs were moved to the twentythreesix Youtube page. She has since also honed an parody of Minnesota Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

Michele Marie Bachmann is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing , a post she has held since 2007. The district includes several of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, such as Woodbury, and Blaine as well as Stillwater and St. Cloud.She is currently a...

 in the same vein.

Benincasa formerly co-hosted the Cosmo Radio

Cosmo Radio

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 sex/relationship talk show "Get in Bed" on Sirius XM Satellite Radio until September 2010, when Sirius XM reduced the channel's programming schedule and let go several of the channel's hosts. She then started a podcast

Podcast

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 with Marcus Parks called "Sex and Other Human Activities" which features a sex questions segment (using questions sent via email and Formspring) that launched in February 2011.

Benincasa was featured on Nerve.com's BlogALog as a comedic blogger. Her last post on the SJ1000 blog was April 1, 2008, in which she suggested that followers missing her internet presence go to her official website, her Myspace

Myspace

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 page, her MTV Think profile, or her blog. Along with her blog, Benincasa filmed a series of interviews titled Tub Talk with Sara B. The series featured Benincasa in a bathtub with various comedic personalities, including Reggie Watts

Reggie Watts

Reggie Watts is a Seattle-based comedian and musician. His shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness stand-up in various shifting personae, mixed with loop pedal-based a cappella compositions. He also performs regularly on television, radio, and in live theater...

, Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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, and Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz

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. Benincasa has since revamped the web series on her YouTube account as Gettin' Wet with Sara Benincasa. Interviewees include Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...

, Donald Glover

Donald Glover

Donald McKinley Glover is an American actor, writer, comedian, and musician. Glover first came to attention for his work in the sketch group Derrick Comedy, and is best known for his role as community college student Troy Barnes on the NBC comedy series Community...

, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

, Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

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, and James Urbaniak

James Urbaniak

James Christian Urbaniak is an American actor. Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Julie and their twins, son Severn Jerzy and daughter Esme Maeve....

.

In 2009, Benincasa developed a one-woman show about her experiences with agoraphobia

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder defined as a morbid fear of having a panic attack or panic-like symptoms in a situation from which it is perceived to be difficult to escape. These situations can include, but are not limited to, wide-open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions...

 and panic attacks. She has since sold the literary rights to Agorafabulous! to William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins.

External links

• Official Sara Benincasa website
• Sara Benincasa's Current Blog on Wordpress.com
• Sex and Other Human Activities podcast on the iTunes Store
  ITunes Store
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• Sara Benincasa's Think MTV Profile