M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! and a Few Other Funny Things. Blogger Gelbart was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, and also was a regular participant on the alt.tv.mash Usenet newsgroup as "Elsig". Honors In 1995, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. He won a Tony Award for the book of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1974 for M*A*S*H. In 2002, Gelbart was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Death Gelbart was diagnosed with cancer in June and died at his Beverly Hills home on September 11, 2009. His wife of 53 years, Pat Gelbart, said that after being married for so long, "we finished each other's sentences." She declined to specify the type of cancer he had. He was interred at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Writing credits Duffy's Tavern (1941–1951) (Radio) The Red Buttons Show (1952) (TV) Honestly, Celeste! (1954) (TV) Caesar's Hour (1954–1957) (TV) The Patrice Munsel Show (1957) (TV) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958) (TV) The Art Carney Show (1959) (TV) Startime (1959) (TV) The Best of Anything (1960) (TV) Hooray for Love (1960) (TV) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (with Burt Shevelove) (1962) (Theater) The Notorious Landlady (with Blake Edwards) (1962) Judy and her guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet (1963) (TV) The Thrill of It All (1963) (story only) The Danny Kaye Show (1963) (TV) The Wrong Box (with Burt Shevelove) (1966) Not with My Wife, You Don't! (with Norman Panama and Peter Barnes) (1966) A Fine Pair (1967) (uncredited) Eddie (1971) (TV) The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971) (TV) M*A*S*H (1972–1983) (TV) (also Co-Creator, with Gene Reynolds) Roll Out (1973) (TV) If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (1974) (TV) Karen (1975) (TV) Sly Fox (1976) (Theater) Three's Company (1976) (TV) (unaired pilot) Oh God! (1977) Movie Movie (1978) United States (1980) (TV) Rough Cut (1980) (as Francis Burns) Neighbors (1981) Tootsie (with Murray Schisgal) (1982) AfterMASH (1983–1984) (TV) (also Creator) Blame it on Rio (1984) In The Beginning (1988) (with Maury Yeston) (Theater) City of Angels (1989) (Theater) Mastergate (1990) (Theater) Barbarians at the Gate (1993) (TV) Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) (TV)