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 – 8
Fox – 5
FX – 2
HBO – 2
Netflix – 2
Prime Video – 2
HBO Max — 1
Pop TV – 1
Individuals with multiple awards
3 awards
Allan Burns
Nat Hiken
Coleman Jacoby
Carl Reiner
Arnold Rosen
Tony Webster
Ed. Weinberger
2 awards
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
9 nominations
David Lloyd
8 nominations
Alec Berg
7 nominations
George Balzer
Larry David
Larry Gelbart
Hal Goldman
Al Gordon
Sam Perrin
Garry Shandling
6 nominations
Glen Charles
Les Charles
Nat Hiken
Arnie Rosen
Peter Tolan
5 nominations
Allan Burns
Louis C.K. David Crane David Isaacs Coleman Jacoby Joe Keenan Ken Levine Mel Tolkin Tony Webster
4 nominations
Alan Alda
Gary Belkin
James L. Brooks
Mel Brooks
Jack Burditt
Robert Carlock
Greg Daniels
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
Jay Tarses
Ed. Weinberger
Bob Weiskopf
3 nominations
Danny Arnold
Jim Carlson
Bob Carroll, Jr. Peter Casey Stan Daniels Sam Denoff Jack Douglas Buck Henry Matt Hubbard Brendan Hunt Mitchell Hurwitz 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 Paul Simms Red Skelton Leonard B. Stern Jason Sudeikis
2 nominations
David Angell
Lucia Aniello
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
Paul W. Downs
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
Alex Gregory
Chris Hayward
Paul Henning
Don Hinkley
John Hoffman
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
Tony Roche
Ray Romano
Julie Rottenberg
Mike Royce
Al Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
Phil Sharp
Tony Sheehan
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Rosie Shuster
Larry Siegel
Ed Simmons
Neil Simon
Stephen Spears
Jen Statsky
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
5 awards
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) (4 consecutive)
4 awards
The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) (3 consecutive) Frasier (NBC) (3 consecutive)