32 historical photos that will make you laugh

...but you can't pick your siblings.

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He was a fellow of infinite jest.

Life as a writer can be ruff.

This two-year-old decided to paint outside the box — or, rather, off the canvas.

This doesn't look very comfortable.

It's hard not to giggle at this gaggle.

The service at this restaurant is wild.

It may be a dog-eat-dog world — but things aren't so bad when you're a pampered pooch.

This Santa Claus looks sullen rather than Jolly.

Hopefully no supervillains were harmed in the making of this road safety video featuring "Batman" actor Adam West. It was filmed in London's Kensington neighborhood in the 1960s.

For this photo, Davy Jones buried fellow Monkees band mates Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz up to their necks in sand.

On a road near Paris, France, Audrey Hepburn and her first husband, Mel Ferrer, bundle up.

They could score big in the championship tidal match.

It sounds like music is on the menu.

This accordion player is getting a glowing "one trunk up" review.

Larry Fine and Curly Howard slurp soup loudly — much to the chagrin of fellow Stooge Moe Howard, who plugs his ears to drown out the sound.

As captured during the 1956 Royal Command Performance, Gracie Fields, a comedienne and singer, drinks tea with music hall and vaudeville entertainer Bud Flanagan, who's dressed as a Roman centurion.

Myrna Loy, an American film, television, and stage actress, illustrates an alternative mode of transportation during inclement weather.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Some people think better while taking a bath — and some sing better.

As British actress Barbara Roscoe demonstrates, why go to a salon when you can dry your hair and cook at the same time?

Sow what? He likes the attention.

A stylish newspaper hat, that's what.

Hats off to this fashionable lady, the mother of famous English milliner David Shilling.

You'll make a complete foal of yourself.

Apparently to publicize the British Egg Marketing Board.

A musician at Miami University in Florida found a novel way to use his instrument on a hot day.

Unless she has a personalized basin, that is.

The hair of the dog was never more chic.

In a publicity shot taken in the 1970s, two ladies in Skegness, a seaside town in Lincolnshire, England, wear vintage bathing costumes from 1914.

Or 12, as the case may be.

Invented in the 19th century, the "mass shaving machine" can shave a dozen men simultaneously. Eric Sykes, an English comedian, demonstrated the device on an unaired pilot for a TV series about 1800s innovations.

Apparently spaghetti-swooshing contests — in which participants had to polish off a bowl of noodles by only using their faces, lips, and tongues — were a thing in the 1940s.

Here, the Minsky Carnival Showgirls compete in such a contest.