Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Earn EGOT After 2024 Emmy Awards Win for Only Murders in the Building Tune

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul certainly have something to sing about after the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

The songwriters behind The Greatest Showman entered the EGOT club on Sunday, Sept. 8, winning an Emmy for best original music and lyrics for “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?" — the Only Murders in the Building tune they composed alongside Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

"It’s obviously thrilling and very wild to think about," Paul told reporters after the win while praising Shaiman and Wittman, who gave the duo their first job in television as composers on season 2 of Smash.

"Getting to do it alongside two of our musical heroes... is what makes it most meaningful," Paul said. "And getting to do it with a collaboration that was probably the most joyful we’ve ever had in our careers, on a TV show that is one of our favorite in the history of television shows… it’s just a remarkable thing to get to celebrate."

Representing the top awards in television (Emmy), music (Grammy), film (Oscar), and theater (Tony), the EGOT is considered the grand slam of show business — a four-of-a-kind sweep that only the rarest of stars have been able to achieve.

Previously, Pasek and Paul had won a pair of Tony Awards for crafting the score to Dear Evan Hansen and producing the best musical A Strange Loop; two Grammys for Dear Evan Hansen's cast album and for the The Greatest Showman's compilation soundtrack; and a Oscar penning the lyrics to "City of Stars" from La La Land,

The duo, both 39, are the twentieth and twenty-first members of the illustrious EGOT list and the second to EGOT as a team, after Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

They're the quickest people to achieve the honor and some of the youngest members of the EGOT club — though Frozen songwriter Robert Lopez, who was also 39 when he won, remains the youngest by mere months.

The full list of EGOT winners are as follows: Richard Rodgers (1962), Helen Hayes (1977), Rita Moreno (1977), John Gielgud (1991), Audrey Hepburn (1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995), Jonathan Tunick (1997), Mel Brooks (2001), Mike Nichols (2001), Whoopi Goldberg (2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Lopez (2014), Webber (2018), Rice (2018), John Legend (2018), Alan Menken (2020), Jennifer Hudson (2022) and Viola Davis (2023).

Earlier this year, in January, Elton John won an Emmy for Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, officially earning him the final piece of the puzzle for EGOT status.

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Pasek and Paul were previously nominated for a best original music and lyrics Emmy in 2018 for "In the Market for a Miracle," a song they composed for A Christmas Story Live!

At Sunday's 2024 Creative Arts Emmys, they were nominated again Sara Bareilles for Girls5eva‘s “The Medium Time”; Saturday Night Live's Eli Brueggemann, Maya Rudolph, Auguste White, Mike DiCenzo and Jake Nordwind for “Mother”; The Tattooist of Auschwitz‘s Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, Walter Afanasieff and Charlie Midnight for “Love Will Survive”; and True Detective: Night Country‘s John Hawkes for “No Use.”

The 2024 Emmy Awards will air from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 15 (at 8 p.m. ET) on ABC.