Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series is an annual award given to the best television comedy series of the year. From 1960 to 1964, this category was combined with the Comedy Specials category so that both type of programs competed for the same award during those years. The award goes to the producers of the series.
Milestones
The Flintstones and Family Guy are the only animated sitcoms to be nominated for the award. As of 2020, Fleabag and Schitt's Creek are the only shows from outside the United States to win this award.Up to the end of the twentieth century, the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) had dominated the category. Only eight other networks have won the award: HBO four times, Apple TV+ three times, Fox twice, and Amazon Prime Video, the BBC, Pop TV, Max, and FX once.
Winners and nominations
The following tables, divided by decade, show the winners listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees of the "Comedy Series" award, according to the Primetime Emmy Awards database:Programs with multiple wins
;5 winsFrasier Modern Family;4 winsAll in the Family Cheers The Dick Van Dyke Show
;3 wins30 Rock The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Phil Silvers Show Taxi Veep
;2 winsEverybody Loves Raymond Get Smart The Golden Girls I Love Lucy The Jack Benny Show Murphy Brown
- ''Ted Lasso''
Programs with multiple nominations
;11 nominationsCheers Curb Your Enthusiasm M*A*S*H;9 nominationsAll in the Family
;8 nominationsFrasier Modern Family
;7 nominations30 Rock Barney Miller Everybody Loves Raymond The Mary Tyler Moore Show Seinfeld Veep
;6 nominationsFriends The Golden Girls The Jack Benny Show The Larry Sanders Show The Office Sex and the City Will & Grace
;5 nominationsThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Murphy Brown Silicon Valley Taxi
;4 nominationsAbbott Elementary Barry Bewitched The Big Bang Theory Black-ish The Danny Thomas Show The Dick Van Dyke Show Family Ties Father Knows Best The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Get Smart Hacks I Love Lucy Mad About You Only Murders in the Building The Phil Silvers Show The Red Skelton Show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt What We Do in the Shadows The Wonder Years
;3 nominationsThe Andy Griffith Show Arrested Development The Bear The Bob Cummings Show Caesar's Hour The Cosby Show Designing Women Entourage Hogan's Heroes Home Improvement Kate & Allie Louie Mister Peepers Night Court The Odd Couple Our Miss Brooks Soap Ted Lasso Two and a Half Men WKRP in Cincinnati
;2 nominations3rd Rock from the Sun Ally McBeal Atlanta Buffalo Bill Family Affair Girls Glee The Good Place The Kominsky Method Love, American Style Master of None McHale's Navy Newhart Parks and Recreation Sanford and Son Schitt's Creek Scrubs
- ''Transparent''