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.
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Total awards by network
- CBS – 22
- NBC – 19
- ABC – 7
- Fox – 5
- FX – 2
- HBO – 2
- Netflix – 2
- Prime Video – 2
Individuals with multiple awards
- Allan Burns
- Nat Hiken
- Coleman Jacoby
- Carl Reiner
- Arnold Rosen
- Tony Webster
- Ed. Weinberger
- David Angell
- Aziz Ansari
- George Balzer
- James L. Brooks
- Louis C.K.
- Stan Daniels
- Sam Denoff
- 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
- Leonard Stern
Individuals with multiple nominations
- David Lloyd
- George Balzer
- Alec Berg
- Larry David
- Larry Gelbart
- Hal Goldman
- Al Gordon
- Sam Perrin
- Garry Shandling
- 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
- Gary Belkin
- James L. Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- Jack Burditt
- Robert Carlock
- Greg Daniels
- Diane English
- Tina Fey
- Sheldon Keller
- Michael Patrick King
- Jeffrey Klarik
- Michael Leeson
- Steven Levitan
- Christopher Lloyd
- David Panich
- Carl Reiner
- Bob Schiller
- Michael Schur
- Jay Tarses
- Ed. Weinberger
- Bob Weiskopf
- Danny Arnold
- Jim Carlson
- Bob Carroll, Jr.
- Peter Casey
- Stan Daniels
- Sam Denoff
- Jack Douglas
- Buck Henry
- Matt Hubbard
- Mitchell Hurwitz
- Coslough Johnson
- Milt Josefsberg
- Norman Lear
- David Lee
- Marc London
- David Mandel
- Allan Manings
- Thomas Meehan
- Dave O'Brien
- Bill Persky
- Madelyn Pugh
- Martin Ragaway
- John Rappaport
- Roswell Rogers
- Philip Rosenthal
- Terry Ryan
- Herbert Sargent
- Paul Simms
- Red Skelton
- Leonard B. Stern
- David Angell
- Aziz Ansari
- Simon Blackwell
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- James Bobin
- John Carsey
- Tucker Cawley
- Ernest Chambers
- Glen Charles
- Larry Charles
- Les Charles
- Cindy Chupack
- Jemaine Clement
- Richard Day
- Gary Dontzig
- Robert Emmett
- Ken Estin
- Gene Farmer
- Paul Feig
- Anne Flett-Giordano
- Donald Glover
- Maya Forbes
- Gerald Gardner
- Ricky Gervais
- Everett Greenbaum
- Jeff Greenstein
- Alex Gregory
- Bill Hader
- Chris Hayward
- Paul Henning
- Don Hinkley
- Peter Huyck
- Armando Iannucci
- Hal Kanter
- David E. Kelley
- Paul Keyes
- Ernie Kovacs
- Jeremy Lloyd
- John Markus
- Mike Marmer
- Bret McKenzie
- Stephen Merchant
- Lorne Michaels
- Jim Mulligan
- Lorenzo Music
- Jess Oppenheimer
- Tom Patchett
- Steven Peterman
- Arthur Phillips
- Amy Poehler
- Earl Pomerantz
- Larry Rhine
- Stefani Robinson
- Tony Roche
- Ray Romano
- Julie Rottenberg
- Mike Royce
- Al Schwartz
- Sherwood Schwartz
- Phil Sharp
- Tony Sheehan
- Rosie Shuster
- Larry Siegel
- Ed Simmons
- Neil Simon
- Stephen Spears
- Michael Stewart
- 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
;4 awards
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Frasier
- All in the Family
- The Phil Silvers Show
- 30 Rock
- Arrested Development
- Cheers
- The Jack Benny Program
- Louie
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Master of None
- Modern Family
- Murphy Brown
- Seinfeld
- Taxi
Programs with multiple nominations
- Cheers
- The Larry Sanders Show
- 30 Rock
- Seinfeld
- M*A*S*H
- All in the Family
- Frasier
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Murphy Brown
- The Office
- Sex and the City
- Taxi
- Veep
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- The Jack Benny Program
- Silicon Valley
- The Wonder Years
- Arrested Development
- Louie
- Atlanta
- Barney Miller
- The Cosby Show
- Episodes
- Barry
- Buffalo Bill
- Father Knows Best
- The Golden Girls
- The Phil Silvers Show
- The Red Skelton Show
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Ally McBeal
- The Associates
- The Bernie Mac Show
- Caesar's Hour
- Car 54, Where Are You?
- 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
- The Good Place
- He & She
- I Love Lucy
- It's Garry Shandling's Show
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Master of None
- Modern Family
- Newhart
- Parks and Recreation
- Schitt’s Creek
- Russian Doll
- That Was the Week That Was