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re: Bobby Lopez for the EGOT!

Posted by:	oddone 03:55 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to:	re: Bobby Lopez for the EGOT! - Chazwaza 03:38 pm EST 01/16/14

By "win the EGOT this year," I don't think the poster meant to say Lopez would be winning all 4 awards in the same year. This isn't necessary for "EGOT." I think the poster meant that Lopez would be winning the 4th one, so that he would now have the EGOT "title." If anything, my objection with the phrasing is the idea of "winning" the EGOT. I guess one can be an EGOT winner, in the sense that EGOT is an abbreviation for all four awards. And certainly the phrase "win the EGOT" allows for this (win the Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony). But "win the EGOT" kind of makes it sound like the EGOT itself is a thing, and it isn't. Meaning, EGOT (as a single object, not an abbreviation) is not itself something you win- it isn't an award or a prize. (Well, there's Tracy Jordan's "EGOT" Medal on 30 Rock.) There's also the fact that Lopez's Emmy is a Daytime Emmy- Whoopi Goldberg has this as well, so some might argue this isn't the same as winning a Primetime Emmy award.

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