Camera Shot of Black Guy Laughing Helps White TV Viewers Know it's OK to Laugh at Black Joke

Millions of uncomfortable white TV viewers were relieved when, after laughing at a stand-up's joke which made fun of several black stereotypes, the camera cut to a black audience member laughing.

"Many people wonder why TV shows use audience shots and laugh tracks," said a TV producer who asked for his name not to be revealed because he is hiding from the Chinese Mafia.  "But how else are people supposed to know that what they hear is funny?  They can't figure stuff like that on our own."

Sally T., a long-time TV watcher, short-time pole dancer agrees with the producer: "One time I was watching a TV comedy and there were no one telling me when to laugh.  I was about to laugh at one joke but I realized I can't think for myself."  She then walked down the street asking strangers if they could tie her shoes for her and and wipe the boogies off her nose.

"This has always been the way for people to know when something is funny," remarked the producer.  "It's just like a few years ago when they cut to a shot of Lindsay Lohan laughing at the Emmys after Conan O'Brien told a joke about red-headed drug addict alcoholic whores."