The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series is an annual award given to the best television comedy series of the year.
The Flintstones and Family Guy are the only animated sitcoms to be nominated for the award.
[3] The Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) have dominated the category.
Only seven other networks have won the award: HBO (once with Sex and the City and three times with Veep) four times, Fox (with Ally McBeal and Arrested Development) and Apple TV+ (with Ted Lasso) twice, and Amazon Prime Video (with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), the BBC (with Fleabag; although seen later on Prime Video), Pop TV (with Schitt's Creek; originally seen on CBC Television), Max (with Hacks), and FX (with The Bear) once.
The following tables, divided by decade, show the winners listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees of the "Comedy Series" award, according to the Primetime Emmy Awards database: