On May 22, 2007, the website Funny or Die leaked a video of Bill Vendall telling the world about The Sanjaya Installation, a part of a large art installation for his thesis program where he played the role of American Idol's Sanjaya Malakar.
“How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution?”
On May 23, 2007 (after Fox received numerous complaints about Bill Vendall), Sanjaya Malakar explains the Bill Vendall hoax, created by Will Ferrel and Funny or Die. He is still 100% Sanjaya.