Mel Brooks is one of the rare entertainers to have achieved the EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. As AXS pointed out, he won his first Emmy as a writer for 1967's The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special. In 1969, he won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Producers. He won his first Grammy in 1999, for his 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 comedy album. Brooks completed the EGOT in 2001 by winning three Tony Awards for his Broadway version of The Producers.
As of 2020, Brooks was just one Oscar away from completing a second EGOT; since winning his Tonys, Brooks has won two additional Grammys and three more Emmys.
He's won other awards as well. Brooks revealed he turned down an invitation to be honored by the Kennedy Center in the early 2000s, he told NPR, because he wasn't a fan of President George W. Bush. "I'm an EGOT, so I don't need any more [awards]," he joked. He finally accepted his award in 2009, when there was a president in the White House more to his liking.
