Vote for the best Mad Men impersonator

AMC.com has been holding a contest for the past few months where they asked fans of Mad Men to send in video tapes where they re-enact a scene from the show. The network supplied the specific scene and script and you had to film your version of it. They got tons of entries. Here are the 18 finalists.

Almost all of them are quite good, and you can see that many of these people could be actors (not that a few of them aren’t already). My favorites are actually the ones where a male will take a scene featuring a female like Betty, Joan, or Peggy and really recreate the scene. Jacob Crumbine’s video is in the lead right now, and it’s great. Even if Mad Men didn’t exist, I’d watch whatever show this was. Rebecca De Ornelas recreates one of Betty’s psychiatrist office scenes and does it very well. Mike Kimmel does the same scene and he’s a natural. Valerie Long’s drunken chat with a lamp works too. Sabina Maschi’s entry is very, very clever.

You also get to see Roger Sterling as a vampire, telling a werewolf he has a nice ass.

The voting ends this Monday, so get clickin’. The winner gets a free trip to Los Angeles, $100 a day for food and transportation, and (most importantly) a walk-on role in a season three episode of the show. I should have entered, but I don’t think I could have done as well as these folks.

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