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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Award for best television 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 (one time programs) category so that both type of programs competed for the same award during those years. The award goes to the producers of the series.

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Milestones

The Flintstones and Family Guy are the only animated sitcoms to be nominated for the award.[1] As of 2020, Fleabag (United Kingdom) [2] and Schitt's Creek (Canada) are the only shows from outside the United States to win this award.[3]

The Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) have dominated the category. Only seven other networks have won the award: HBO (once with Sex and the City and three times with Veep) four times, Fox (with Ally McBeal and Arrested Development) and Apple TV+ (with Ted Lasso) twice, and Amazon Prime Video (with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), the BBC (with Fleabag; although seen later on Prime Video), Pop TV (with Schitt's Creek; originally seen on CBC Television) once, and FX (with The Bear).

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

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Programs with multiple wins

Programs with multiple nominations

Total awards by network

Notes

  1. In 1957, two separate series categories existed, Best Series – Half Hour or Less and Best Series – One Hour or More, and an award was given in each category. The Phil Silvers Show won Best Series – Half Hour or Less, while Caesar's Hour won Best Series – One Hour or More. For this year (and also in 1965), TV series were not segregated by genre so that comedy shows also competed with musical-variety shows, drama shows and interview shows.

See also


References

  1. "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Emmys.com. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  2. "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Emmys.com. Retrieved July 11, 2018.

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