Kanye West

Rapper Kanye West -- who stormed on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards and stole the spotlight from Taylor Swift -- was the biggest failure of 2009. That's the word from the masters of failure themselves.

Fail Blog today released its top 10 most memorable fail moments and top 10 most memorable fail people of the year, and West led the community voting in both categories. More than 100,000 votes were cast, with Cheezburger Network CEO and Fail Blog publisher Ben Huh noting that "it was a year of epic fails on so many levels." Continue reading for some of those "epic fails."

Here's a look at the top 10 FAIL moments with the percentage of the vote:

1. Kanye West's Outburst at the Video Music Awards 37%

2. Bolivian Newscast Airs “Lost” Scene as Flight 447’s Last Moments 13%

3. Richard Heene’s Balloon Boy Hoax 11%

4. Photo Opportunity for Air Force One Mistaken for Terrorist Attack 8%

5. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Tries to Sell Obama’s Senate Seat 7%

6. Northwest Flight to Minneapolis Overshoots Airport by 150 Miles 7%

7. Gordon Brown's Hand Shake Fail 4%

8. Christian Bale’s Freak Out on Terminator Set 3%

9. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Affair with Argentinean 3%

10. White House Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi 2%

And here's a look at the top 10 FAIL people of the year:

1. Kanye West 16%

2. Jon Gosselin 12%

3. Glenn Beck 12%

4. Perez Hilton 11%

5. Octomom Nadya Suleman 10%

6. Chris Brown 9%

7. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt 7%

8. Lindsay Lohan 7%

9. Carrie Prejean 5%

10. Roman Polanski 4%

Even better here are some of the top video and photo fails of the year:

Frustrated Skateboarder Fail

Playground Fail

Tarzan Fail

Risky Business Fail

[Kanye West photo via Wikimedia]