Big Babies

Joe E. Brown

Comedians have long found that a reliable way to get laughs is to dress up as a baby.

Eddie Cantor

The Three Stooges

Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan in The Band Wagon (1953)

Billie Rhodes in Kidding Sister (1917)

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Lou Costello

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Marlon Wayans in Little Man (2006)

Read more about big babies in I Won't Grow Up!: The Comic Man-Child in Film from 1901 to the Present.