David Cook on "Early Show" and "TRL"

New “American Idol” David Cook appeared this morning on CBS “Early Show,” doing an interview with anchor Maggie Rodriguez and performing “The Time of My Life.” Click here to ready the written version of the interview, in which the newly minted music star/sex symbol claims he’s “just a nerd who got lucky.”

Here’s video of his interview and performance, from Popcrunch.com:

Also, MTV and the Associated Press released late Thursday photos of Cook and David Archuleta’s Tuesday appearance on “TRL.”

 My favorite of the TRL images: This hilarious shot of Cook holding a phone book so that Archie could finally test “Idol” judge Randy Jackson’s repeated declaration that the teen crooner could sing the phone book and still sound impressive. It’s about time somebody tested that ridiculously overused cliche.

-BAM