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The famous faces of TV are (nearly) all present in this Hall of Fame

By Sophie Goldstein

Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:49 PM CST

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Homer Simpson, here pictured with Jay Leno, who did not make the list. (Associated Press)

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Letterman and Stewart made the cut, but Leno got stiffed when Entertainment Weekly and TV Land did their list of the top 50 TV icons. Leading the list, of course, the guy who started it all:

Johnny Carson
Lucille Ball
Oprah Winfrey

Bill Cosby
Walter Cronkite
Carol Burnett
Mary Tyler Moore
Jerry Seinfeld
Homer Simpson
Dick Clark

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