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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award (the Oscars of journalism) for Craig's interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tutu's first American talk-show appearance
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Erik Per Sullivan (AKA Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle) was awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin. Previous recipients include, Ralph Fiennes, Noam Chomsky and Desmond Tutu.
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Nobel Pride winners Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela lived on the same exact street in South Africa.
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Prominent defense attorney Melvin Belli, who defended the shooter of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused his ex-wife of having an affair with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and throwing one of his dogs off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was also fined $1000 by the judge for repeatedly calling her "El Trampo".
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu's daughter, The Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu had to return her priest's licence in South Africa, after marrying a woman, Marceline van Furth.
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Vilakazi Street, Soweto, South Africa is the only street to have once housed two Nobel Laureates: Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
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South Africa is the only country that has produced two Nobel Prize winners who lived on the same street. One Desmond Tutu, the other is Nelson Mandela.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeared on an hour long late night comedy talkshow, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. For this the show won a Peabody Award for Excellence in Television, stating it had "made late-night television safe again for ideas."
