If we can't have Adam Lambert, we don't want nobody (baby)

Last night American Idol's resident eyeliner apologist Adam Lambert surprised yet again by delivering a stripped-down ballad on disco night. The song he chose - Yvonne Elliman's iconic "If I Can't Have You" - was yet another tip-off that this kid knows his classics, but it was the unexpected arrangement that once again wowed the judges.

Okay, so this is pretty much to be expected at this point. What was slightly more surprising? The shocking evidence that diminutive Idol glad-hander Ryan Seacrest clearly reads AfterElton.com and is stealing my material!

Here's what went down...

Last week I announced right here on this very blog-thing that from here on out I was pronouncing Adam Lambert as "Adam Lambehhhhrrrr", like "camembert" or ... um ... "Lilith Faire"? So imagine my surprise last night when the snack-sized guy in the sharkskin suit introduced our fave as ... "Adam ... Lambehhhhhhrrrrrr!" (The camera of course adds a few "hhrrr"s.)

I think that's pretty much proof that Ryan reads this site regularly ... not that that means anything! Still, Ryan, we're happy to have you here and promise not to tell Joel McHale.

Anyway, here are some more pictures of Adam for Ryan - I mean for you! - to enjoy.