Marc Cherry talks about Bob and Lee...

First he gave us Andrew Van de Kamp and now "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry is giving us Bob and Lee, the first gay couple to live on Wisteria Lane during what is the show's best season since its first year oin the air.
"In capturing the gay suburban experience, the joke is they have the same issues as everyone else," Marc says in today's USA Today. "The politically correct thing would have been to have everyone get along with them. But there's a lot of comedy to be played against type."
Marc tells the paper that he named the characters after ABC journalist Bob Woodruff and his wife, Lee, after meeting them at a dinner and that he and his writers are still developing Bob and Lee's story lines.
The story also includes interviews with Tuc Watkins and Kevin Rahm who I think are terrific in their roles.
Said Watkins: "Marc should be applauded for creating gay characters who aren't issue-oriented. A lot of the time, gay characters are known through issues -- coming out or health problems. There are a few cliché gay jokes on Desperate Housewives. But Bob and Lee aren't stereotypical. They have horrible taste. They have a sense of humor. They're a little mean. They're certainly not PC."