Richie is a kid from Des Moines, Iowa, in the year 1994. Dick is Richie all grown up, aged forty-two-and-some. He's also the American father of time travel. Virgil is an actor from 2039 set to play Dick in an award-winning and profoundly unflattering biopic. Time's Laughingstocks is what happens when Dick takes it upon himself to guide Richie and Virgil on a private tour through time...