There was a humongous sigh of relief that sent waves across the globe after Sanjaya Malakar was booted out of American Idol tonight.

Yeah, I guess America realized it has had enough of his silly antics that it was time to get down to real business of discovering the next manufactured pop idol whose existence we’ll probably half forget come the show’s next season.

You see he’s like bubblegum. Pretty soon it loses its taste and he wasn’t funny anymore. Including his hair.

So what do we watch now? Some boring compilation of cliches week after week with these contestants belting out to the point of throwing their tonsils out on our TV screens?

Did all the teenyboppers get extended detention last night barring them from going near the phone to vote for their unloved idol? Hmmm…I smell conspiracy here. Even Ryan Seacrest could not hide his girly-man crush on Sanjaya after final vote counts were announced. “I can promise you: We won’t soon forget you.”

Even with Simon Cowell’s eye-rolling controversy, the gun control issue, Kim Jong Il’s threat to bomb our asses off, or Iran’s persistence to continue its nuclear program, none of them mattered this night. The biggest news in the universe is Sanjaya’s final fall.

‘Twas kind of expected, too. After his last night’s confusingly androgynous performance online betting bookies’ American Idol odds show Sanjaya highly favored to get booted off. One online bookie posted odds on Sanjaya to be eliminated at +475 which paid out $475 for every $100 bet by Idol gamblers.

So all you AI die-hards who threatened launching armageddon if Sanjaya wins American Idol, you can all go back to watching your favorite show in peace.

And the rest of us can now go back to working on world peace.

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