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Moore Award Nominee Update

By The Daily Dish
Aug 8 2008, 11:01 AM ET

A reader writes:

I think you may be giving Alec an excessively hard time. Condoleeza Rice is a love interest for his character on the show, so I think he means that the writers have a hard time making that recurring joke funny without crossing a line into graphic offensiveness (i.e., having his character make anatomical references to the Secretary of State). Arguably, a line is crossed by alluding to her as a love interest in the first place, but it’s hardly the first time an actual public figure has been invoked in a sitcom.

My bad. I don't watch the show and didn't know it was an inside-joke.



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