After Phyllis Diller gave him an early break, he wrote for Bob Hope and for shows including 'Laugh-In,' 'Welcome Back, Kotter' and 'Three's Company.'
An analytical expert when it came to comedy, Perret joined Burnett in 1973 and served as a staff writer on her legendary CBS variety program for its final five seasons. He received his Emmys in 1974, ’75 and ’78 and was nominated three other times.
Perret collaborated with Hope for 28 years, writing for his TV specials and USO Christmas tours. He accompanied the famed comedian on many of the trips he made around the world to entertain the troops before Hope retired in the 1990s. Born on April 3, 1937, Eugene Richard Perret went to work for General Electric in 1956 and got laughs during a roast of his boss at a party. He sent jokes to Slappy White and Phyllis Diller, who hired him and encouraged him to write full-time.
“If you saw the kind of engineer I was, you’d know that going into comedy was a natural progression,” he said. Perret quit engineering in 1969 and moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he landed writing jobs on
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