seem to be Black somehow mattered, but it doesn't matter. The story doesn't require it, but somehow it adds flavor to the story or something.

I guess maybe this is the angle on that that makes it a little special. It's just a great solution. Maybe we can see more of it. I don't know.

Actor Peter Scolari passed away at age 66 from cancer. I have a Peter Scolari story. One of the weird things about my life is I just end up meeting a lot of people who end up being in the news. And years ago when I was doing a Dilbert TV show, we were casting for the talent for the various Dilbert parts. And just the interesting thing I learned that involved Peter Scolari, because he was one of the people who—well, I can't use the word "tried out" for the part, and that's the point of the story.

So apparently in Hollywood there are three levels of actors. At the bottom level, the people who are new to the game—I see you all fighting you naked. I saw your comment. So the three levels of celebrities. I learned this when I was working there. At the bottom level they have to audition for every role because they're not famous. Nobody knows them. You just have to audition or you're not going to get the job.

At the next level up you still need to audition, but you're a little bit famous or even a lot famous, and they don't want to call it an audition. So you do a fake audition, but you call it a meeting. And so Peter Scolari was already quite successful from Bosom Buddies and other stuff. And so when his name came up and we invited him in to—I think he was trying for the role of the Dilbert voice, if I recall—and you have to do this whole thing where you pretend you're not actually doing an interview. You just have