‘Idol’ judges get hammered on ‘The View’

No matter how the rest of the world responded to Kara DioGuardi's post-Big Mike breakdown last night, you'd think she would have gotten a sympathetic reception from the women on "The View." No such luck.

"They were so wacky last night," Joy Behar said Thursday of the "American Idol" judges on Wednesday night's show. "They were flirting. They were fighting. They were crying. … All sorts of wacky stuff was going on."

Elisabeth Hasslebeck called the judges' antics an "emotional mess." (Entertainment Weekly says DioGuardi's tears were prompted by her own desire for a baby.)

Then, after viewing a clip of DioGuardi gushing that Big Mike's rendition of "This Woman's Work" was "amazing," Behar jumped on the "Idol" judge for that too.

Through all this, guest Elton John sat silently, until Sherri Shepherd asked him what he thought of DioGuardi's suggestion that a young fellow like Aaron Kelly couldn't possibly have enough life experience to put across a song like Lonestar's "I'm Already There."

"It's so hard for the contestants," John said. "I mean, A) They're on television, live. B) They're trying to do the best they can in the two minutes they're given."

But then the pop legend, whose name has been bandied about as a potential replacement for the departing Simon Cowell, revealed himself to have been nearly as transported by Big Mike Lynche's performance as DioGuardi was. He said, "The difference between Big Mike and the other boy that was singing [Tim Urban] is that Big Mike has the most God-given voice. I mean the other guy's got a nice voice. But Big Mike — I've only seen a small clip of it — is like Luther Vandross. He's like the voice of an angel."

"But will he be the 'American Idol'?" asked Behar.

"Why not?" said John. "Ruben Studdard was." 

– Amy Reiter

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