TALES FROM THE SCRIPT: THE BEHIND-THE-CAMERA ADVENTURES OF A TV COMEDY WRITER by Perret Gene

Author:Perret, Gene [Perret, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2012-02-07T08:00:00+00:00

The Carol Burnett Show writing staff accepting their first Emmy Award in 1974. L. to R. (back row” Barry Harman, Bill Richmond, Barry Levinson, Arnie Kogen, Dick Clair, Roger Beatty. (front row) Gene Perret, Ed Simmons, Jenna McMahon, Gary Belkin, Rudy DeLuca.

it got a nice laugh. Back at the Burnett offices, we unwrapped our statues and admired them. i read the plaque at the bottom of my Emmy and noticed that the word “writers” was misspelled. The engraving read, “wri ers.” i told the group, “This is wild. On my plaque there’s no ‘t’ in the word ‘writers.’” Bill Richmond said, “Really? Both ‘t’s’ are there on mine.”

He was kidding, of course, but i wasn’t. i still cherish my misspelled Emmy statuette.

We repeated in 1974-1975 with most of the same team of writers, with the exception of Barry Harman, who had moved on to other projects.

The previous year, when we came onstage at the Emmy Awards, the camera had a close-up of me only once. While it was on me, i covered my face with my hand, but during the awards for 1974-1975, it looked like i had bribed the cameraman. no matter which camera they used to shoot our group, i was facing it. i made up for the camera time that i missed that first year.

The third season of our administration was also the year that Saturday Night Livepremiered. it was an innovative show that generated a lot of attention and won the writing award for Variety.

They won the following year, too.

We bounced back, though, at the 1977-78 awards telecast. Our writing staff captured the Emmy on the last season of The Carol Burnett Show. The staff that year consisted of Ed Simmons, Roger Beatty, Rick Hawkins, Liz Sage, Robert illes, James Stein, Franelle Silver,

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