Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre, or even gender, specific. Beginning with 1970, supporting actors in comedy have competed alone. However, these comedic performances often included actors from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:# – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Television film, prior to the category's creation§ – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation

Programs with multiple wins

;5 winsThe Andy Griffith Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
;4 winsFrasier Modern Family Night Court
;3 winsEntourage Everybody Loves Raymond Taxi Seinfeld
;2 winsAll in the FamilyThe Bear Caesar's Hour Hogan's Heroes The Jackie Gleason Show M*A*S*HTed Lasso

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Programs with multiple nominations

;21 nominationsM*A*S*H
;19 nominationsCheersModern Family
;13 nominationsFrasierThe Mary Tyler Moore Show
;12 nominationsEverybody Loves RaymondSaturday Night LiveSeinfeld
;10 nominationsThe Larry Sanders Show
;9 nominationsTed Lasso
;8 nominationsBarney MillerBarryVeep
;7 nominationsEntourageWill & Grace
;6 nominationsNewhartTaxiTwo and a Half Men
;5 nominationsThe Andy Griffith ShowAll in the FamilyEvening ShadeHogan's HeroesI Love LucyThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
;4 nominationsAlly McBealThe BearBrooklyn Nine-NineCoachHow I Met Your MotherNight CourtThe Phil Silvers ShowUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
;3 nominationsAbbott ElementaryArrested DevelopmentBasketsCaesar's HourGirlsThe Jackie Gleason ShowThe Kominsky MethodMalcolm in the MiddleMurphy BrownThe Office
;2 nominations30 RockBen CaseyDragnetGleeHacksKey & PeeleThe Lucy ShowRoom 222ShrinkingThe Steve Allen Show