India, Sept. 15 -- Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen took the stage together Sunday night at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, standing in front of a full house at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles as they accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. The couple, married 30 years, made history as the first to receive the honor as a pair, reports ABC News.

Chosen by the Television Academy's board of directors, the award goes to people in the industry whose work off-screen - from philanthropy to activism - leaves a real, lasting mark.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Bell and Michael Schur, Danson's collaborators on The Good Place, presented the award. Bell called the couple's legacy one of "extraordinary philanthropy, activism and u...