Gene Perret Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ Writer & ‘Three’s Company’ Producer Was 85

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Gene Perret, who began a decades-long comedy writing career contributing jokes to stand-ups Slappy White and Phyllis Diller before joining the Emmy-winning writing staff of The Carol Burnett Show, …

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, Perret began writing comedy as a hobby while working as an electrical engineer for General Electric in Philadelphia during the mid-1950s. After contributing some one-liners to local comic White, he was introduced by a friend to Diller, who hired him for her 1968 sitcomand encouraged Perret to pursue comedy writing full time.

 

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