Eddie Lancaster

I live in a little town called Oldbury, where Birmingham collides with the Black Country, making me a ‘Yam Yam’. I write comedy novels aimed mainly at my own generation (post skateboarding/pre Fixodent), for folks who enjoy a laugh and don’t take life too seriously; anyone from toilet readers to bored van drivers and those poor souls sitting in a doctors waiting room hoping it’s not bad news. Plots as thin as cigarette paper, held together by a thousand dad gags. Vintage humour from a time before everyone got offended by everything and the difference between a joke and an insult was the expression on the face that said it.

My influences are the ‘golden years’ of film and television - Bless This House, George and Mildred, Carry-On, The Sweeney, Man About the House, and more recently, Still Game, Minder, Bottom and The Young Ones. There’s a smattering of bad language and the odd knob gag, but very little intercourse, mainly because I think you have to be good at something in order to write about it! So I usually concentrate on characters who are skint and use them to poke fun at things I probably shouldn’t, subjects I know a lot about, to laugh at a time when life isn’t very funny…

I'm the least 'authory' person that you will ever meet, so if you like what I do, feel free to look me up on Facebook. I rarely post anything serious and just spend most of my time laughing at myself or the world around me. But, if Facebook isn't your thing or you've already read one of my barmy books and you're dying to know more about the comedy capital of the West Midlands, please scour the internet for my SillyBoyBooks website.