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Last night, roughly 25 million viewers were treated to the most useless prank in the history of television (and we're including Ashton Kutcher's entire career) when comedian Chris Wylde (of Comedy Central's canceled-after-the-first-commerical-break The Chris Wylde Show) crashed American Idol, pretended to be a nanny, and treated the slack-jawed Fox demo to an impropmtu rap. Oh, and after he was summarily dismissed by Idol's Nurembergian arbiters, he stayed in character and unleashed a stream of expletives to express his disappointment that he wasn't going to be a star. Sweet! We sincerely hope that the buzz from his two-seasons-too-late stunt helps Wylde get that national Pizza Hut commercial he's in the running for so he can pay the rent this month.

[CollegeHumor has video of the "audition" here. Really, the chick in the cow costume was edgier.]