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OK, we're going to skip right past the painfully awkward lip-syncing, and skip straight to the Jane Lynch on Wednesday's "series premiere" (despite airing a pilot earlier this year) of "Glee."

You know who Jane Lynch is -- she played Steve Carell's boss in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," and she's been in a bazillion Christopher Guest movies. We love her and she's hilarious. Hands down one of the funniest actresses of the past decade. And one of her greatest strengths is that she can deliver lines like nobody's business. (Ask Jane Lynch a question here!)

But is "Glee" taking that skill and using it for evil rather than good, by turning her into an uber-villain without the slightest scrap of good nature or humanity?

After all, there's a thin line between funny and mean. And since the other adult females on the show are an OCD neurotic in love with a married man and a woman faking a pregnancy to get a new house, it would be nice if one of them was at least a little likeable, even if it was the bad guy.

Click for a few of our few of our favorite Jane Lynch moments.


Jane Lynch eating cocaine for breakfast, lunch and dinner in "Role Models."


Playing a super-competitive, incredibly arrogant dog trainer, she was the perfect domineering counterpart to Jennifer Coolidge's ditzy heiress in "Best in Show."


As a matter-of-fact boss who wants to get laid and isn't afraid of sharing a little T.M.I. about losing her virginity or her "haunting" sexual prowess in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."


We're used to seeing Jane play characters who are so entitled or self-assured they make you wince (and laugh) at them, not characters who are so entitled or self-assured you can't even believe it.