TITLE: COMEDY WRITING STEP BY STEP: How To Write And Sell Your Sense Of Humor
AUTHOR: Gene Perret
FOREWORD by Carol Burnett
PUBLISHER: Samuel French Trade, Hollywood, CA, Copyright 1982, First Samuel French Edition 1990, Original price $11.95
ISBN: (10) 0573606056 (13) 978-0573606052
DESCRIPTION: Soft cover, Decorative cover, 281 pages, Size approx. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
BOOK CONDITION: Good +, Clean, bright, and colorful cover, Pages white, clean and tight, Very light edge wear, Back cover corner tip bumped/crease mark with several inside page tip corners lightly creased
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Gene Perret offers the reader a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a very broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of your work…from the basics of comedy writing as a craft on through the nitty-gritty of the work and finally, to comedy writing as a career Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing in his uniquely knowledgeable and anecdotal fashion.
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.
