Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Award for comedy series writing

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.^{[note 1]} It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material.

Winners and nominations

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Total awards by network

• CBS – 22
• NBC – 19
• ABC – 8
• Fox – 5
• FX – 2
• HBO – 2
• Netflix – 2
• Prime Video – 2
• HBO Max — 1
• Pop TV – 1

Individuals with multiple awards

Individuals with multiple nominations

Programs with multiple awards

Programs with multiple nominations

See also

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

Notes

1. In 1969 and 1970, the nominees for the comedy writing award were variety programs.
2. The 17th Primetime Emmy Awards did not have genre-specific categories.

References

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