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The Simpons character "Edna Krabappel" was retired after Emmy Award-winning voice actress Marcia Wallace died in 2013. To acknowledged her death, the chalkboard in the opening sequence was changed to read a single "We'll really miss you Mrs. K"

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Term "EGOT" was coined by Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas who said he planned to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony within 5 years. As of 2019, he has yet to be nominated for any of the awards.

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  1. Mr Rodgers, when receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys, asked his audience to take "ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are", causing many to cry.

  2. HBO's iconic "Band of Brothers" premiered two days before 9/11. When the attacks occurred, HBO stopped all marketing for the show, and by the end of the series it had half the viewers it started with. It won six Emmys, a Golden Globe, and was awarded a Peabody.

  3. Only one actor has ever earned a REGOT (Razzie, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards): actress Liza Minnelli.

  4. Mel Brooks is one of twelve people to ever win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (an EGOT) and the only person to ever receive those four plus awards from the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center

  5. Anthony Hopkins played Adolf Hitler in the 1981 movie The Bunker. He won an Emmy Award and actors on the set claimed his performance was so convincing that those playing German soldiers snapped to attention whenever Hopkins came onto the set, even if he wasn't in character.

  6. The cartoon, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, won 2 Emmy awards in 2006 and 2007.

  7. George R.R. Martin was an award-winning author decades before he ever became famous, with his first Hugo Award in 1975 and first Emmy nomination for producing the Beauty and the Beast TV series in 1988.

  8. In 1977 there was an Emmy Award winning Prequel to How The Grinch Stole Christmas in which the Grinch tries to terrorize the Whos on Halloween. It is called “Halloween is Grinch Night”

  9. Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park) is only an O away from being an EGOT (emmy, grammy, oscar, tony award winner)

  10. Whoopi Goldberg is one of only twelve people to receive Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

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The episode "Heart of Ice," from Batman: The Animated Series, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program. It was the series' second Emmy award (out of the 4 that it won).

The Apollo 8 mission brought a television camera along with them, over the objections of the mission commander. The resulting broadcasts attracted huge audiences and ended up winning an Emmy Award. - source

Betty White has won a Grammy, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, eight Emmy Awards, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Wire never won a single Emmy award and was only nominated twice for writing.

Only 12 people have ever won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards). The longest time between completion was 45 years; the shortest was 10 years. - source

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Robert Lopez is not only the person with the fastest EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) win on record, but he is also the only person to get all of those awards more than once.

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Alan Rickman played Rasputin in a TV movie titled Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe for that role.

Sesame Street has won 159 Emmy Awards, more than any other TV show

When you win an Emmy award you have to pay for the statue.

Robin Williams won one Oscar, two Emmy awards, a total of 7 Golden Globe Awards, 4 Grammy Awards, and 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

After winning the award four times in a row, actor John Larroquette took himself out of consideration for the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor.

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Candice Bergen voluntarily withdrew her name from the Emmy nominations after winning the award five times for Murphy Brown.

Liam Neeson's mother-in-law, Vanessa Redgrave, is the only British actress to ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Marc Brown has earned a total of three Daytime Emmy Awards to date for the Arthur television series adapted from his children's series.

Mel Brooks has won Tony, Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy awards - making him known as an EGOT.

Betty White was nominated for a Best Actress Emmy in 1950, the first year the Emmys included acting awards

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Martin Scorsese films have won awards such as Academy Awards, BAFTA awards, Golden Globe Awards, Palme d"Or awards, Cannes Film Festival Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy's, DGA awards, and Silver Lions.

Sydney Pollack had been nominated for several Emmy awards during his career. He won two, for producing and for directing.

The acronym EGOT was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas (best known for his role in Miami Vice) in reference to his plans on winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. He has not received nominations for any of them.

Idris Elba has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Kira Roessler, former bass player for Black Flag, went on to become an Emmy and Oscar award winning sound editor

Since "The Oscars" (as well as the "Grammy Awards" & the "Tony Awards") is a TV show, it's often nominated for an Emmy.

Barry Breman, also known as "The Great Imposter." Breman was a salesman who posed as a Major League Baseball umpire at the World Series, a player in a MLB All-Star Game, a player in a NBA All-Star Game, a referee in the NFL, a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, an Emmy Award accepter, and much more

Jon Stewart has won 22 Emmy Awards and been nominated 47 times to date. He has also won 5 Peabody Awards, and 7 Producers Guild of America awards.

The Dualshock controller received an Emmy Award for "Peripheral Development and Technological Impact of Video Game Controllers."

There are 12 people who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards a.k.a. EGOT. There's only one EGOTH (EGOT+Hugo)winner, Mel Brooks.

Since 2006, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (for The New Adventures of Old Christine & Veep) in all but one year (2010-11) and won 10 out of those 14 nominations.

John Tesh (composer of the NBA theme) won 6 Emmys, 2 Grammys, an investigative journalism award from the Associated Press, hosted Entertainment Tonight, recorded over 50 albums (4 gold), and was a sportscaster for The Olympics, Wimbledon, The US Open, The Tour De France, Ironman Triathlon.

Whitney Houston produced the Emmy awarding winning Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella(1997), The Princess Diaries starring Anne Hathaway(2001), and Disney's The Cheetah Girls(2003)

Whoopi Goldberg is the only person ever to have an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony Award, and a Kid's Choice Award.

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