I can honestly say no I would not have thought it was funnier if he was black . <| sep |> Only in the Cartesian <| sep |> Step one . Stafford . <| sep |> Did you pass the joint to him ? <| sep |> With the examples they wrote the big bang theory and Brooklyn 99 then Gilmore Girls was the first . They shouldn ' t have phrase it that way . <| sep |> we need to ensure it doesn ' t preclude competent people from contributingMaybe we need people who are of a higher standard than just ' competent '. Given that this is now a billion dollar enterprise , maybe the standard should be Can you understand this paper without explanations being provided ? . I studied physics at university . It was expected of me that if I was given a sheet crammed with partial differential equations with no annotation , I would be expected to understand what was in front of me . Now , 20 years later , I wouldn ' t have a clue of course because I didn ' t use them postgraduation , but at the time . yeah , it was a good screening test aka ' exam ' to sort out that who knew their stuff , from those who didn ' t .