"The Clapper" by Dito Montiel

Sooo Montiel is the author and director of "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", which I have only seen and have yet to read, but I was at the library and recognized his name and went ahead and grabbed it and....it was awesome.

The book is about this random guy, Eddie Rumble, who ends up in the "career" of being paid to sit through infomercials and horrible sitcoms for a few bucks. The whole point of his career involves using different disguises so people don't catch onto the fact these people are paid to do this over and over on different shows, so that people watching think the laughs are real or whatever.

Well, Jay Leno's people notice Eddie in multiple audiences, wearing all different stuff, and he quickly becomes known as "the clapper".

That's most of the plot, but the story is amazing, and the humor is too. I'm embarrassed to say I actually laughed out loud this morning at one point, in the office nonetheless.

And after reading this one, I can only hope it too will be made into a film.