SM The essence of all comedy is the disparity between how someone thinks the world perceives them and how the world actually perceives them. Bertie doesn’t have a clue but he thinks he does. He is utterly reliant on Jeeves and just like a child when everything works out. I see that with my own little boys. They have a birthday party, they just assume it happens by itself. That’s the way things are. Why wouldn’t there be a big party? And they don’t realise there are the Jeeveses out there making their life happy.