I'm a little slow. Forgot they skipped over the monkey part. Reminds me of a joke though: Got you where I want ya, now I'm goin' to eat ya'.
Bananas like apples and cabbage and a host of other veggies and fruit have been bred into their modern forms through centuries of selective breeding. Bananas originally were nothing like what we see in the modern fruit. Comfort’s argument was surely one from ignorance.