Is there humor in Proust? Mais, oui!

The laughs keep coming in Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" (Davis tr.), only half-kidding, Proust's humor not for everyone but there's a kind of nuttiness in his writing that at times approaches the Pythonesque, for example the cure (priest) who stops by to visit the hypochondriac Aunt Leonie - she's upset because the visit comes at the same time as visit of her gossipy friend, Eulalie, and she wants to spread out these visits to make the most of each, maid Francoise doesn't get this and thinks Leonie is thrilled to hav the priest stop by - Proust notes dryly that the priest has useful information about etymologies, and then the priest goes on literally for pages about basically nothing but every once in a while diverts to explain the Latin origin of various place names - ridiculous and funny! Or: Marcel's (I will call the narrator that, though he doesn't cop to the name till the 7th volume) family has lunch an hour earlier than usual on Saturdays, giving Francoise time to get to the market (nice of them, huh?), which lead to family jokes about Saturday: when from time to time someone would check his watch and say it's 90 minutes till lunchtime, we would laugh and say: Oh, no - it's Saturday! Those cut-ups! It really is funny in a stupid, goofball way - and especially so because the style is so elevated and elegant, the weird humor takes us unaware - is this novel just goofy? - and then we come on an extraordinary passage, such as Proust's beautiful description, in just a paragraph or so, short for him, of the onset of a rainstorm. Leaves you gasping.