Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| First awarded | 1955 |
| Currently held by |
Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, Master of None (2016) |
| Official website |
emmys |
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
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The George Gobel Show | James B. Allardice, Jack Douglas, Hal Kanter, and Harry Winkler | NBC | ||
| I Love Lucy | Bob Carroll, Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, and Madelyn Pugh | CBS | ||
| The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Milt Josefsberg, Sam Perrin, and John Tackaberry | |||
| The Jackie Gleason Show | Jackie Gleason and staff writers | |||
| Make Room for Daddy | Danny Thomas and staff writers | ABC | ||
| Mister Peepers | Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum | NBC | ||
| The Phil Silvers Show | "You'll Never Get Rich" | Arnold Auerbach, Barry Blitzer, Vincent Bogert, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Harvey Orkin, Arnold Rosen, Terry Ryan, and Tony Webster | CBS | |
| Caesar's Hour | Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, and Mel Tolkin | NBC | ||
| The George Gobel Show | Everett Greenbaum, Hal Kanter, Howard Leeds, and Harry Winkler | |||
| I Love Lucy | "L.A. at Last!" | Bob Carroll, Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf | CBS | |
| The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | |||
| The Phil Silvers Show | Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, Leonard Stern, and Tony Webster | CBS | ||
| Caesar's Hour | Gary Belkin, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, Neil Simon, and Michael Stewart, and Mel Tolkin | NBC | ||
| The Ernie Kovacs Show | Louis M. Heyward, Ernie Kovacs, Rex Lardner, and Mike Marmer | |||
| The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | CBS | ||
| The Perry Como Show | Goodman Ace, Jay Burton, George Foster, and Mort Green | NBC | ||
| The Phil Silvers Show | Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, A.J. Russell, Terry Ryan, Phil Sharp, Tony Webster, and Sydney Zelinka | CBS | ||
| Caesar's Hour | Gary Belkin, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, Neil Simon, and Michael Stewart, and Mel Tolkin | NBC | ||
| The Ernie Kovacs Show | "No Dialogue Show" | Ernie Kovacs | ||
| Father Knows Best | Roswell Rogers and Paul West | |||
| The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | CBS | ||
| 1958–59 | The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | CBS | |
| The Bob Cummings Show | "Grandpa Clobbers the Air Force" | Paul Henning and Dick Wesson | NBC | |
| Father Knows Best | "Medal for Margaret" | Roswell Rogers | CBS | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Vampire" | Billy Friedberg, Coleman Jacoby, and Arnie Rosen | ||
| The Real McCoys | "Once There Was a Traveling Saleswoman" | Bill Manhoff | ABC |
1960s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959–60 | The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | CBS | |
| Ballad of Louie the Louse | Nat Hiken | CBS | ||
| Father Knows Best | Dorothy Cooper and Roswell Rogers | |||
| 1960–61 | The Red Skelton Show | Dave O'Brien, Martin Ragaway, Al Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz, and Red Skelton | NBC | |
| Hennesey | Richard Baer | CBS | ||
| Make Room for Daddy | Jack Elinson and Charles Stewart | |||
| 1961–62 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Carl Reiner | CBS | |
| The Bob Newhart Show | Ernest Chambers, Dean Hargrove, Don Hinkley, Robert Kaufman, Roland Kibbee, Norm Liebman, Bob Newhart, Milt Rosen, Charles Sherman, Larry Siegel, and Howard Snyder | NBC | ||
| Car 54, Where Are You? | Nat Hiken, Terry Ryan, and Tony Webster | CBS | ||
| Chun King Chow Mein Hour | Stan Freberg | ABC | ||
| The Red Skelton Show | Dave O'Brien, Arthur Phillips, Martin Ragaway, Al Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz, Ed Simmons, and Red Skelton | CBS | ||
| 1962–63 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Carl Reiner | CBS | |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | Paul Henning | CBS | ||
| Car 54, Where Are You? | Nat Hiken | NBC | ||
| The Jack Benny Program | George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, and Sam Perrin | CBS | ||
| The Red Skelton Show | Mort Greene, Bruce Howard, Rick Mittleman, Dave O'Brien, Arthur Phillips, Martin A. Ragaway, Larry Rhine, Ed Simmons, Red Skelton, and Hugh Wedlock | |||
| 1963–64 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Plots Thicken" | Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, and Carl Reiner | CBS |
| The Danny Kaye Show | Herbert Baker, Gary Belkin, Ernest Chambers, Larry Gelbart, Saul Ilson, Sheldon Keller, Paul Mazursky, Mel Tolkin, and Larry Tucker | CBS | ||
| The Farmer's Daughter | Steven Gethers, Jerry Davis, Lee Loeb, and John McGreevey | ABC | ||
| That Was the Week That Was | Robert Emmett, Gerald Gardner, Thomas Meehan, David Panich, Ed Sherman, Saul Turteltaub, and Tony Webster | NBC | ||
| 1964–65 |
The Defenders | "The 700 Year Old Gang" | David Karp | CBS |
| Danny Thomas Special | "The Wonderful World of Burlesque" | Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen | NBC | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Never Bathe on Saturday" | Carl Reiner | CBS | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Magnificent Yankee" | Robert Hartung | NBC | |
| That Was the Week That Was | William Boardman, Dee Caruso, Robert Emmett, David Frost, Gerald Gardner, Buck Henry, Joseph Hurley, Thomas Meehan, Herbert Sargent, Larry Siegel, Gloria Steinem, Jim Stevenson, Calvin Trillin, and Saul Turteltaub | |||
| 1965–66 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" | Sam Denoff and Bill Persky | CBS |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Ugliest Dog in the World" | Sam Denoff and Bill Persky | CBS | |
| Get Smart | "Mr. Big" | Mel Brooks and Buck Henry | NBC | |
| 1966–67 | Get Smart | "Ship of Spies" | Buck Henry and Leonard Stern | NBC |
| Family Affair | "Buffy" | Edmund Hartmann | CBS | |
| I Dream of Jeannie | Sidney Sheldon | NBC | ||
| 1967–68 | He & She | "The Coming-Out Party" | Allan Burns and Chris Hayward | CBS |
| He & She | "The Old Man and the She" | Leonard Stern and Arne Sultan | CBS | |
| The Lucy Show | "Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account" | Milt Josefsberg and Ray Singer | ||
| That Girl | "The Mailman Cometh" | Danny Arnold and Ruth Brooks Flippen | ABC | |
| 1968–69 |
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Allan Blye, Bob Einstein, Carl Gottlieb, Cy Howard, Steve Martin, Lorenzo Music, Murray Roman, Cecil Tuck, Paul Wayne, and Mason Williams | CBS | |
| The Carol Burnett Show | Bill Angelos, Stan Burns, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, Don Hinkley, Buz Kohan, Mike Marmer, Gail Parent, Arnie Rosen, and Kenny Solms | CBS | ||
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | "February 3, 1969" | Chris Bearde, Jim Carlson, David M. Cox, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Marc London, Allan Manings, Jack Mendelsohn, Lorne Michaels, James Mulligan, Hart Pomerantz, David Panich, and Hugh Wedlock Jr. | NBC |
1970s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969–70 |
Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man | Gary Belkin, Peter Bellwood, Thomas Meehan, Herbert Sargent, and Judith Viorst | CBS | |
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | "November 3, 1969" | Jim Carlson, John Carsey, Jack Douglas, Gene Farmer, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Jeremy Lloyd, Marc London, Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, David Panich, John Rappaport, and Stephen Spears | NBC | |
| "December 20, 1969" | Jim Abell, Jim Carlson, John Carsey, Jack Douglas, Chet Dowling, Gene Farmer, Coslough Johnson, Jeremy Lloyd, Marc London, Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, David Panich, John Rappaport, Stephen Spears, and Barry Took | |||
| 1970–71 | Mary Tyler Moore | "Support Your Local Mother" | James L. Brooks and Allan Burns | CBS |
| All in the Family | "Meet the Bunkers" | Norman Lear | CBS | |
| "Oh My Aching Back" | Stanley Ralph Ross | |||
| Here's Lucy | "Lucy Meets the Burtons" | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Pugh | ||
| 1971–72 | All in the Family | "Edith's Problem" | Burt Styler and Steve Zacharias | CBS |
| All in the Family | "Mike's Problem" | Alan J. Levitt and Phil Mishkin | CBS | |
| "The Saga of Cousin Oscar" | Norman Lear and Burt Styler | |||
| 1972–73 | All in the Family | "The Bunkers and the Swingers" | Lee Kalcheim, Norman Lear, Michael Ross, and Bernard West | CBS |
| Mary Tyler Moore | "The Good-Time News" | James L. Brooks and Allan Burns | CBS | |
| M*A*S*H | "M*A*S*H" | Larry Gelbart | ||
| 1973–74 | Mary Tyler Moore | "The Lou and Edie Story" | Treva Silverman | CBS |
| M*A*S*H | "Hot Lips and Empty Arms" | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Mary Kay Place | CBS | |
| "The Trial of Henry Blake" | McLean Stevenson | |||
| 1974–75 | Mary Tyler Moore | "Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?" | Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger | CBS |
| Mary Tyler Moore | "Lou and That Woman" | David Lloyd | CBS | |
| Rhoda | "Rhoda's Wedding" | Norman Barasch, James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, David Davis, David Lloyd, Carroll Moore, and Lorenzo Music | ||
| 1975–76 | Mary Tyler Moore | "Chuckles Bites the Dust" | David Lloyd | CBS |
| Barney Miller | "The Hero" | Danny Arnold and Chris Hayward | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "Hawkeye" | Larry Gelbart and Simon Muntner | CBS | |
| "The More I See You" | Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds | |||
| Maude | "The Analyst" | Jay Folb | ||
| 1976–77 | Mary Tyler Moore | "The Last Show" | James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Stan Daniels, Bob Ellison, David Lloyd, and Ed. Weinberger | CBS |
| Barney Miller | "Quarantine" (Part II) | Danny Arnold and Tony Sheehan | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "Dear Sigmund" | Alan Alda | CBS | |
| Mary Tyler Moore | "Mary Midwife" | David Lloyd | ||
| "Ted's Change of Heart" | Earl Pomerantz | |||
| 1977–78 | All in the Family | "Cousin Liz" | Harve Brosten, Barry Michael Harman, Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf | CBS |
| All in the Family | "Edith's Crisis of Faith" (Part II) | Larry Rhine, Erik Tarloff, and Mel Tolkin | CBS | |
| "Edith's 50th Birthday" | Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Fallen Idol" | Alan Alda | ||
| 1978–79 |
M*A*S*H | "Inga" | Alan Alda | CBS |
| All in the Family | "California, Here We Are" (Part II) | Milt Josefsberg, Bob Schiller, Phil Sharp, and Bob Weiskopf | CBS | |
| M*A*S*H | "Point of View" | David Isaacs and Ken Levine | ||
| Saturday Night Live | "Host: Richard Benjamin" | Dan Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, Tom Davis, James Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Al Franken, Brian McConnachie, Lorne Michaels, Don Novello, Herbert Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, Walter Williams, and Alan Zweibel | NBC | |
| Taxi | "Blind Date" | Michael Leeson | ABC |
1980s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979–80 | Barney Miller | "The Photographer" | R.J. Colleary | ABC |
| The Associates | "The Censors" | Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger | ABC | |
| "The First Day" | Charlie Hauck and Michael Leeson | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Goodbye Radar" (Part II) | David Isaacs and Ken Levine | CBS | |
| Taxi | "Honor Thy Father" | Glen Charles and Les Charles | ABC | |
| 1980–81 | Taxi | "Tony's Sister and Jim" | Michael Leeson | ABC |
| The Greatest American Hero | "Pilot" | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "Death Takes a Holiday" | Mike Farrell, Dennis Koenig, Burt Metcalfe, Thad Mumford, John Rappaport, and Dan Wilcox | CBS | |
| Taxi | "Going Home" | Glen Charles and Les Charles | ABC | |
| "Elaine's Strange Triangle" | David Lloyd | |||
| 1981–82 | Taxi | "Elegant Iggy" | Ken Estin | ABC |
| Barney Miller | "Landmark" (Part III) | Frank Dungan, Tony SheehanJeff Stein | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "Follies of the Living, Concerns of the Dead" | Alan Alda | CBS | |
| Police Squad! | "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)" | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | ABC | |
| Taxi | "Jim the Psychic" | Holly Holmberg Brooks and Barry Kemp | ||
| 1982–83 | Cheers | "Give Me a Ring Sometime" | Glen Charles and Les Charles | NBC |
| Buffalo Bill | "Pilot" | Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses | NBC | |
| Cheers | "The Boys in the Bar" | David Isaacs and Ken Levine | ||
| "Diane's Perfect Date" | David Lloyd | |||
| Taxi | "Jim's Inheritance" | Ken Estin | ||
| 1983–84 | Cheers | "Old Flames" | David Angell | NBC |
| Buffalo Bill | "Wilkinson's Sword" | Tom Patchett | NBC | |
| "Jo-Jo's Problem" (Part II) | Jay Tarses | |||
| Cheers | "Power Play" | Glen Charles and Les Charles | ||
| "Homicidal Ham" | David Lloyd | |||
| 1984–85 | The Cosby Show | "Pilot" | Michael Leeson and Ed. Weinberger | NBC |
| Cheers | "I Call Your Name" | Peter Casey and David Lee | NBC | |
| "Rebound" (Part II) | Glen Charles and Les Charles | |||
| "Sam Turns the Other Cheek" | David Lloyd | |||
| The Cosby Show | "Goodbye Mr. Fish" | Earl Pomerantz | ||
| 1985–86 | The Golden Girls | "A Little Romance" | Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan | NBC |
| Cheers | "2 Good 2 Be 4 Real" | Peter Casey and David Lee | NBC | |
| The Cosby Show | "Denise's Friend" | John Markus | ||
| "Theo's Holiday" | Carmen Finestra, John Markus, and Matt Williams | |||
| Family Ties | "The Real Thing" (Part II) | Michael J. Weithorn | ||
| The Golden Girls | "Pilot" | Susan Harris | ||
| 1986–87 | Family Ties | "A, My Name is Alex" | Gary David Goldberg and Alan Uger | NBC |
| Cheers | "Abnormal Psychology" | Janet Leahy | NBC | |
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | "Here's Why Cosmetics Should Come in Unbreakable Bottles" | Jay Tarses | ||
| The Golden Girls | "Isn't it Romantic" | Jeffrey Duteil | ||
| Newhart | "Co-Hostess Twinkie" | David Mirkin | CBS | |
| 1987–88 | Frank's Place | "The Bridge" | Hugh Wilson | CBS |
| Cheers | "Home is the Sailor" | Glen Charles and Les Charles | NBC | |
| Designing Women | "Killing All the Right People" | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | CBS | |
| It's Garry Shandling's Show | "It's Garry and Angelica's Show" (Part II) | Tom Gamill, Max Pross, and Sam Simon | Showtime | |
| "No Baby, No Show" | Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel | |||
| The Wonder Years | "Pilot" | Carol Black and Neal Marlens | ABC | |
| 1988–89 | Murphy Brown | "Pilot" | Diane English | CBS |
| The Wonder Years | "Pottery Will Get You Nowhere" | Matthew Carlson | ABC | |
| "Coda" | Todd W. Langen | |||
| "Loosiers" | David M. Stern | |||
| "Our Miss White" | Michael J. Weithorn |
1990s
2000s
2010s
Total awards by network
- CBS – 22
- NBC – 19
- ABC – 7
- Fox – 5
- FX – 2
- HBO – 2
- Netflix – 1
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Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Though this category is the dominant one in which sitcom writing has been recognized, there were a few years in which sitcom series writers competed directly with writers of variety and music programs.
- ↑ The 17th Primetime Emmy Awards did not have genre-specific categories.
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