J. Chris Newberg part of TV lore

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 26th, 2010

Did you watch Idol tonight?  No?  Well, then, you missed a hunk of television lore, right up there with the time the streaker set up David Niven for one of the all-time greatest Oscar lines or when “Soy Bomb” failed to flap the unflappable Bob Dylan on the Grammy’s a few years back.

Dane Cook was tapped to come out and razz Simon Cowell on tonight’s results episode.  (Simon’s leaving the show, so they took the opportunity to pad out this episode with multiple Simon tributes.)  Cook showed up with a guitar and a song.  A song co-written by Cook and J. Chris Newberg.

But before the ditty could reach its delicious climax, some nutjob jumped out and commandeered the mike, jabbering about Simon and yelling vaguely threatening things about him.  It was a true WTF/TV moment!  One which had millions wondering: Was it real or was it staged?

UPDATE: We went to a/the source.  Newberg writes:

I wrote a great song with Dane for Idol and before he had a chance to really get into it, some dickbag jumped out and soy bombed him. The song is fun and it was perfect for the show. I am very proud of what we did.

Nice reference to “Soy Bomb!” (See above link.)

Dane Cook tweeted about it:

That was not staged. Weirdo hijacked the song. Just glad he didn’t hit me in the face w/the mic or Americal Idol would b American Beatdown.

And…

If you missed it I got Kanye’d on American Idol. Wild. Luckily at the end of the song. Simon loved it. D-load song on iTunes tomorrow.

Cook goes for the Kanye reference… we went for Soy Bomb.

SHECKYmagazine and J. Chris? We Old School!

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