Archuleta on 'Tosh.0'? Hard to believe

Wow. Was that really David Archuleta on the most recent episode of "Tosh.0"?

What? The squeaky-clean "American Idol" runner-up was on the intentionally vulgar and tasteless Comedy Central program?

Why, yes. That was him. Which sort of makes you wonder if Archuleta is a fan. Or if he'd ever even seen the show before.

For those of you who haven't seen "Tosh.O," it's basically comedian Daniel Tosh poking fun at video clips that have been posted on the Internet. It's sort of a PG-13 version of "America's Funniest Home Videos," complete with sometimes astonishingly violent (with horrific injuries), vulgar and tasteless videos.

(Comedy Central itself rates the show TV-14.)

It's not that Tosh isn't funny — if you're into that sort of thing — but his show is about 180 degrees away from the other shows we've seen Archuleta on post-"Idol."

You know, like "Hannah Montana" and "iCarly."

Each episode of "Tosh.O" features a "web redemption." People who have been in an embarrassing video that have gone viral are brought onto the show for a chance to "redeem" themselves.

Really, it's all about Tosh making fun of them. As you might expect.

But it's not necessarily surprising that people who are so desperate for attention that they posted embarrassing videos of themselves would agree to be embarrassed some more.

Anyway, last week's web redemption featured a group of teenage girls who were in a video showing them reacting with a high degree of shock and anger when it was announced that Archuleta didn't win "American Idol." As in, they went over the top in a way only teenage girls can.

Tosh used the opportunity to make fun of "Idol" judges Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi and host Ryan Seacrest.

(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

And he teased the girls about meeting Archuleta. The Utahn finally showed up as a dismembered head in a box — a weird parody of the 1995 movie "Se7en" (which none of the girls was old enough to have seen).

Young Archuleta's dismembered head shouted, "It's all your fault! You didn't vote for me enough!"

It was pretty stupid, but less offensive than many of Tosh's bits.