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There are many awards and honors celebrities can get for their work, but it’s still fairly rare for someone to win all the main show business awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. However, there are 12 people who have been able to win all four awards, a feat that is commonly abbreviated as EGOT. You might be familiar with this label thanks to 30 Rock, which showed Tracy Morgan’s character trying to achieve EGOT status and become more of a serious performer. 

The great thing about this title is that people can achieve it through comedy, producing, writing, acting, and composing. There isn’t just one talent that is being celebrated in this list. So which talented few have made it to this inner circle? Here are 12 that are in this elite pack.

1. Mel Brooks

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Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

Brooks is one of the few that got his EGOT for different kinds of work. He won three Tony awards and an Oscar for The Producers. The movie showed two producers, Max (Zero Mostel) and Leo (Gene Wilder) try to make their flop into a success. He later won an Emmy for writing for The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special, but he also got acting Emmys for Mad About You. He later got a Grammy for Best Spoken Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.

The success of becoming an EGOT then made him start scrutinizing certain awards and where they came from. “I was offered this — the Kennedy Center Honors — maybe a year or two before,” Brooks told NPR. “I said, ‘Well, I’m going to wait for another president, if I’m still alive, if you don’t mind.’ I just didn’t feel comfortable when Bush was president to accept the honors. … Had I not gotten 110 awards — you know, I’m an EGOT, so I don’t need any more. … The Kennedy Center Honors, at the moment, I didn’t need them.”

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