Roasts & Toasts: Snappy One-Liners for Every Occasion [Paperback]

Gene Perret (Author), Terry Perret Martin (Author), Myron Miller (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc; Ex-Library edition (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806994444
• ISBN-13: 978-0806994444
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,557,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very snappy, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Roasts & Toasts: Snappy One-Liners for Every Occasion (Paperback)

I've read a few other toasting books because I am so in love with the art of toasting. This one not only has guidelines for coming up with your own, but also has some very nice historical and traditional toasts. The chapters on being witty are very fun to read as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Speaker's Resource, May 10, 2003

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Colin Ong TS (s) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roasts & Toasts: Snappy One-Liners for Every Occasion (Paperback)

As a trainer and coach, I feel this book is a good guide for any occasion - however, it is to be used in a light-hearted vein. It actually brightened my day.

It can prepare you when someone is about to pass a witty remark - and you can give an equally witty rejoinder!

However, I feel that its greatest strength is to give speakers a good starting point to develop their own brand of witty humour.

Go on - buy the book.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Book on How to Lose Friends and Deflate People, January 26, 2001

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"ronlv" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roasts & Toasts: Snappy One-Liners for Every Occasion (Paperback)

There are hardly any toasts in the book. How many times have you been involved in a roast compared to a toast or impromptu compliment. The title of the book is totally misleading. It should be "One Liners in Search of Their Once in a Lifetime Moment." The only persons that should buy this book is that rare individual that is involved in roasts or that even rarer person that has far too many friends. Use the one liners in this book and your friends are sure to disappear. Or you run with a really strange crowd. I know a couple of strange people that I could give the book to, but should I encourage them.