If you’ve never watched an episode of “The Rachel Zoe Project,” consider yourself lucky.  Lab rats trying to work their way through a maze display greater mental dexterity.  Better language skills, too.  If you don’t believe me, watch some clips yourself at Bravo or Hulu.  This clip is only 32 seconds long, but it made my eyelid twitch.

Anyway, this Funny or Die video by Amy Phillips is a welcome takedown of Zoe.  If you still don’t dislike her after seeing the video evidence, read this NYT article from 2007 — before she had a TV show.

Magazines like Us constructed provocative narratives around [non-celebrities like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie] — their romantic woes, their drug problems — and Zoe, who began working with Richie in 2003 when she was viewed only as Hilton’s plump sidekick, saw an opportunity. “Nicole is now what people refer to as the big thing that happened,” Zoe told me in Paris. “Everything went from nowhere to everywhere. Nicole was about creating a look. Because of her fashion sense, which was really my fashion sense, she became famous. It was a huge moment: Nicole became a style icon without being a star.”

Nicole Richie, of course, dated DJ AM, and the headlines resulting from that increased his fame, which gave him more gigs, which led to the near-fatal plane crash last year that led to his dependence on Xanax that triggered his drug relapse and deadly overdose.  Long story short, Rachel Zoe murdered DJ AM.