Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Achieve EGOT Status With Emmys Win

The prestigious EGOT club just gained two new members: Songwriters Benj Paul and Justin Pasek.

The duo, who already have an Oscar for “La La Land” and a Tony and Grammy award for “Dear Evan Hansen,” secured their EGOT with an Emmy win for “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from “Only Murders in the Building” (co-written with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman) won for best song.

Speaking with Variety for Making a Scene, the show’s co-creator said, “It came to me in the shower. I literally just thought, ‘Oh, which of the Pickwick triplets did it?’” Hoffman recalls. “The constable character, played by Steve in the play, was on a mission to uncover which of these little baby triplets could have killed their mother — which is prepos -

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terous, but delightfully preposterous in my mind.”

In writing the song, Pasek said, “Our job was to try to write something that is as difficult to sing as possible, and that it really should trip the tongue and that should be something really, really hard to do in one take. That works to our advantage in terms of the plot, because really the question is, can this character pull it off? And for several episodes, he can’t. It gives us something to really root for over the course of the season.”

Pasek and Paul became the 20th and 21st members of the elusive group. The EGOT clubalso includes the likes ofWhoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend and more.

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