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 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:1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
;5 wins- Frasier
- Modern Family
- All in the Family
- Cheers
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- 30 Rock
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Phil Silvers Show
- Taxi
- Veep
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Get Smart
- The Golden Girls
- I Love Lucy
- The Jack Benny Show
- Murphy Brown
- ''Ted Lasso''
Programs with multiple nominations
- Cheers
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- M*A*S*H
- All in the Family
- Frasier
- Modern Family
- 30 Rock
- Barney Miller
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Seinfeld
- Veep
- Friends
- The Golden Girls
- The Jack Benny Show
- The Larry Sanders Show
- The Office
- Sex and the City
- Will & Grace
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Murphy Brown
- Silicon Valley
- Taxi
- Abbott 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
- The 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
- 3rd 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''
Total awards by network
- NBC – 26
- CBS – 22
- ABC – 11
- HBO/HBO Max – 5
- Apple TV+ – 3
- Fox – 2
- Prime Video – 2
- FX – 1
- Pop TV – 1