Clay Aiken: Still Driving Me Up the Wall 4 Years After He Was "Relevant"

Full disclosure: I've never watched American Idol. I've caught bits and pieces, but the appeal has never grabbed me. My soul is too rotten, I guess. Plus, I have an aversion to easy listening covers.

But I don't live under a rock and I heard plenty about the Ruben Studdard/Clay Aiken drama. The rumors, the conspiracy theories...all of which didn't do much to endear me to the show. I mean, if a generic R&B singer and a dim Manilow knock-off can divide a nation, please prop me up at the nearest bar.

So, Aiken's latest quote about his new role as Sir Robin in the Monty Python musical Spamalot has not done much to put us on friendly terms.

Of the musical, Aiken said, "The first time I saw it I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen in my entire life." Now, I have not seen the musical so I can't speak for its quality (and I don't really like musicals that much, anyway), but isn't this kind of a stupid thing to say about your new job?

But THEN he went on to say: "I thought Monty Python was a person until three months ago."

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COME ON, DUDE! IT'S CALLED THE INTERNET. Five minutes with our buddy Google and he would have been all apprised of the situation. But besides that, why didn't he know about Monty Python? HOW HAS HE NOT SEEN THE HOLY GRAIL?

The future is bleak, my friends, if people can grow up not pondering the wing velocity of African vs. European swallows.

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