Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Award winners

;1970s
*1975: Cloris Leachman – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

;1980s
*1988: Beah Richards – "Frank's Place"
*1989: Colleen Dewhurst – "Murphy Brown"

;1990
*1990: Swoosie Kurtz – "Carol and Company"
*1991: Colleen Dewhurst – "Murphy Brown"
*1992: "no information"
*1993: Tracey Ullman – "Love and War"
*1994: Eileen Heckart – "Love and War"
*1995: Cyndi Lauper – "Mad About You"
*1996: Betty White – "The John Larroquette Show"
*1997: Carol Burnett – "Mad About You"
*1998: Emma Thompson – "Ellen"
*1999: Tracey Ullman – "Ally McBeal"

2000s

;2000

* Bea Arthur in Malcolm in the Middle
* Cheri Oteri in Just Shoot Me
* Debbie Reynolds in Will & Grace
* Jean Smart in Frasier
* Holland Taylor in The Lot

;2001

* Jami Gertz in Ally McBeal
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Bernadette Peters in Ally McBeal
* Susan Sarandon in Friends
* Jean Smart in Frasier

;2002

* Glenn Close in Will & Grace
* Katherine Helmond in Everybody Loves Raymond
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Susan Sarandon in Malcolm in the Middle
* Frances Sternhagen in Sex and the City

;2003

* Christina Applegate in Friends
* Georgia Engel in Everybody Loves Raymond
* Betty Garrett in Becker
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Betty White in Yes, Dear

;2004

* Christina Applegate in Friends
* Eileen Brennan in Will & Grace
* Georgia Engel in Everybody Loves Raymond
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Laura Linney in Frasier

;2005

* Blythe Danner in Will & Grace
* Georgia Engel in Everybody Loves Raymond
* Kathryn Joosten in Desperate Housewives
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Lupe Ontiveros in Desperate Housewives

;2006

* Blythe Danner in Will & Grace
* Shirley Knight in Desperate Housewives
* Cloris Leachman in Malcolm in the Middle
* Laurie Metcalf in Monk
* Kate Winslet in Extras

;2007

* Dixie Carter in Desperate Housewives
* Salma Hayek in Ugly Betty
* Judith Light in Ugly Betty
* Laurie Metcalf in Desperate Housewives
* Elaine Stritch in 30 Rock

;2008

* Polly Bergen in Desperate Housewives
* Carrie Fisher in 30 Rock
* Edie Falco in 30 Rock
* Kathryn Joosten in Desperate Housewives
* Sarah Silverman in Monk
* Elaine Stritch in 30 Rock