Grandchildren Are So Much Fun, We Should Have Had Them First [Paperback]

Gene Perret (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Azurite Books (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893860612
• ISBN-13: 978-1893860612
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,582,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > Limericks & Humorous Verse

More About the Author

Gene Perret has been a comedy writer since the early 1960's working for comedians such as Slappy White and Phyllis Diller. He's been a television comedy writer and producer since 1968. Perret has earned 7 Emmy nominations, including one for original music, and 2 Writer's Guild Award nominations. He has captured three Emmy awards and one Writer's Guild Award as part of the Carol Burnett Show writing staff. Gene produced "Welcome Back, Kotter," "Three's Company," and "The Tim Conway Show."
Gene also worked on Bob Hope's writing staff for 28 years, from 1969 until the comic's retirement -many of those years as Hope's head writer. During that time, Gene wrote for all of Bob's personal appearances and TV Specials. traveling with the Bob Hope troupe to the war zones of Beirut, the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, and on a peace time military jaunt around the world that featured stops at the Berlin Wall and in Moscow.
Besides his humorous books and how-to books on the craft of comedy, Gene teaches comedy writing through various avenues, including via e-mail.