I dunno. Monty’s like the professor on Gilligan’s Island, who could make a radio out of a coconut but couldn’t figure out how to build a raft to get back to the mainland.
Right. They’re all stereotypes, including Jarvis and Sedgewick. There’s a fine line between political correctness and common decency, but the stereotypicality of these characters is the main aspect that makes them funny. Many stereotypes are neither decent nor comical, but these are.
That’s what he euphemistically calls the back alley.