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
- Pop TV – 1
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Individuals with multiple awards
Individuals with multiple nominations
- 9 nominations
- 7 nominations
- 6 nominations
- 5 nominations
| - 4 nominations
| - 3 nominations
| - 2 nominations
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Programs with multiple awards
- 5 awards
- 4 awards
- 3 awards
| - 2 awards
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Programs with multiple nominations
- 13 nominations
- 11 nominations
- 10 nominations
- 9 nominations
- 7 nominations
| - 6 nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
| - 2 nominations
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See also