Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It recognizes writing excellence in regular comedic series, most of which can generally be described as situation comedies. It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material.
Total awards by network
- CBS – 22
- NBC – 19
- ABC – 8
- Fox – 5
- FX – 2
- HBO – 2
- HBO Max — 2
- Netflix – 2
- Prime Video – 2
- Apple TV+ - 1
- Pop TV – 1
Individuals with multiple awards
;3 awards- Allan Burns
- Nat Hiken
- Coleman Jacoby
- Carl Reiner
- Arnold Rosen
- Tony Webster
- Ed. Weinberger
- David Angell
- Lucia Aniello
- Aziz Ansari
- George Balzer
- James L. Brooks
- Louis C.K.
- Stan Daniels
- Sam Denoff
- Paul W. Downs
- Tina Fey
- Anne Flett-Giordano
- Billy Friedberg
- Hal Goldman
- Al Gordon
- Mitchell Hurwitz
- Michael Leeson
- Steven Levitan
- Christopher Lloyd
- David Lloyd
- Sam Perrin
- Bill Persky
- Chuck Ranberg
- Terry Ryan
- Jen Statsky
- Leonard Stern
Individuals with multiple nominations
;9 nominations;8 nominations
;7 nominations
;6 nominations
- Glen Charles
- Les Charles
- Nat Hiken
- Arnie Rosen
- Peter Tolan
- Allan Burns
- Louis C.K.
- David Crane
- David Isaacs
- Coleman Jacoby
- Joe Keenan
- Ken Levine
- Mel Tolkin
- Tony Webster
- Alan Alda
- Lucia Aniello
- Gary Belkin
- James L. Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- Jack Burditt
- Robert Carlock
- Greg Daniels
- Paul W. Downs
- Diane English
- Tina Fey
- Bill Hader
- Sheldon Keller
- Michael Patrick King
- Jeffrey Klarik
- Michael Leeson
- Steven Levitan
- Christopher Lloyd
- David Panich
- Carl Reiner
- Bob Schiller
- Michael Schur
- Paul Simms
- Jen Statsky
- Jay Tarses
- Ed. Weinberger
- Bob Weiskopf
- Danny Arnold
- Quinta Brunson
- Jim Carlson
- Bob Carroll, Jr.
- Peter Casey
- Stan Daniels
- Sam Denoff
- Jack Douglas
- Alex Gregory
- Buck Henry
- Matt Hubbard
- Brendan Hunt
- Mitchell Hurwitz
- Peter Huyck
- Coslough Johnson
- Milt Josefsberg
- Joe Kelly
- Norman Lear
- David Lee
- Marc London
- David Mandel
- Allan Manings
- Thomas Meehan
- Dave O'Brien
- Bill Persky
- Madelyn Pugh
- Martin Ragaway
- John Rappaport
- Stefani Robinson
- Roswell Rogers
- Philip Rosenthal
- Terry Ryan
- Herbert Sargent
- Red Skelton
- Leonard B. Stern
- Jason Sudeikis
- David Angell
- Aziz Ansari
- Simon Blackwell
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- James Bobin
- John Carsey
- Tucker Cawley
- Ernest Chambers
- Larry Charles
- Cindy Chupack
- Jemaine Clement
- Richard Day
- Gary Dontzig
- Robert Emmett
- Maya Erskine
- Ken Estin
- Gene Farmer
- Paul Feig
- Anne Flett-Giordano
- Donald Glover
- Maya Forbes
- Gerald Gardner
- Ricky Gervais
- Everett Greenbaum
- Jeff Greenstein
- Chris Hayward
- Paul Henning
- Don Hinkley
- John Hoffman
- Peter Huyck
- Armando Iannucci
- Sam Johnson
- Hal Kanter
- Chris Kelly
- David E. Kelley
- Paul Keyes
- Ernie Kovacs
- Jeremy Lloyd
- John Markus
- Mike Marmer
- Bret McKenzie
- Stephen Merchant
- Lorne Michaels
- Jim Mulligan
- Lorenzo Music
- Sarah Naftalis
- Jess Oppenheimer
- Tom Patchett
- Steven Peterman
- Arthur Phillips
- Amy Poehler
- Earl Pomerantz
- Larry Rhine
- Tony Roche
- Ray Romano
- Julie Rottenberg
- Mike Royce
- Meredith Scardino
- Sarah Schneider
- Al Schwartz
- Sherwood Schwartz
- Phil Sharp
- Tony Sheehan
- Amy Sherman-Palladino
- Rosie Shuster
- Larry Siegel
- Ed Simmons
- Neil Simon
- Stephen Spears
- Michael Stewart
- Christopher Storer
- Burt Styler
- Saul Turteltaub
- Jim Vallely
- Jon Vitti
- Hugh Wedlock Jr.
- Michael J. Weithorn
- Hugh Wilson
- Harry Winkler
- Elisa Zuritsky
- Alan Zweibel
Programs with multiple awards
;5 awardsThe Mary Tyler Moore Show;4 awardsThe Dick Van Dyke Show Frasier
;3 awards30 Rock All in the Family The Phil Silvers Show
;2 awardsArrested Development Cheers Hacks The Jack Benny Show Louie Malcolm in the Middle Master of None Modern Family Murphy Brown Seinfeld
- ''Taxi''
Programs with multiple nominations
;13 nominations30 Rock Cheers The Larry Sanders Show;12 nominationsM*A*S*H
;11 nominationsSeinfeld
;10 nominationsAll in the Family
;9 nominationsFrasier The Mary Tyler Moore Show
;8 nominationsTaxi
;7 nominationsThe Jack Benny Show The Office Sex and the City Veep What We Do in the Shadows
;6 nominationsBarry The Dick Van Dyke Show Everybody Loves Raymond Murphy Brown Silicon Valley The Wonder Years
;5 nominationsArrested Development Louie
;4 nominationsAtlanta Barney Miller The Cosby Show Episodes Hacks The Phil Silvers Show Ted Lasso
;3 nominationsAbbott Elementary Buffalo Bill Caesar's Hour Father Knows Best The Golden Girls The Red Skelton Show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
;2 nominationsAlly McBeal The Associates The Bear The Bernie Mac Show Car 54, Where Are You? The Danny Thomas Show The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Ellen Extras Family Ties Flight of the Conchords Freaks and Geeks Friends The George Gobel Show Get Smart Girls5eva The Good Place He & She I Love Lucy It's Garry Shandling's Show Malcolm in the Middle Master of None Modern Family Newhart Only Murders in the Building The Other Two Parks and Recreation PEN15 Russian Doll Schitt's Creek