Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material.

Award winners

1950s

*1955: James Allardice, Jack Douglas, Hal Kanter, Harry Winkler – "The George Gobel Show"
*1956: Arnold Auerbach, Barry Blitser, Vincent Bogert, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Harvey Orkin, Arnold Rosen, Terry Ryan, Tony Webster – "The Phil Silvers Show"
*1958: Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, A.J. Russell, Terry Ryan, Phil Sharp, Tony Webster, Sidney Zelinka – "The Phil Silvers Show"
*1959: George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, Sam Perrin – "The Jack Benny Show"

1960s

*1960: George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, Sam Perrin – "The Jack Benny Show"
*1961: Dave O'Brien, Martin Ragaway, Sherwood Schwartz, Al Schwartz, Red Skelton – "The Red Skelton Show"
*1962: Carl Reiner – "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
*1963: Carl Reiner – "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
*1966: Sam Denoff, Bill Persky – "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
*1967: Buck Henry, Leonard B. Stern – "Get Smart"
*1968: Allan Burns, Chris Hayward – "He and She"

1970s

*1971: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
*1972: Burt Styler – "All In The Family"
*1973: Lee Kalcheim, Michael Ross, Bernard West – "All In The Family"
*1974: Treva Silverman – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"; Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld Miller, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, George Yanok – "Lily"
*1975: Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
*1976: David Lloyd – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
*1977: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Stan Daniels, Bob Ellison, David Lloyd, Ed. Weinberger – "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
*1978: Harve Brosten, Barry Michael Harman, Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf – "All In The Family"

1980s

*1980: R.J. Colleary – "Barney Miller"
*1981: Michael J. Leeson – "Taxi"
*1982: Ken Estin – "Taxi"
*1983: Glen Charles, Les Charles – "Cheers"
*1984: David Angell – "Cheers"
*1985: Ed. Weinberger, Michael J. Leeson – "The Cosby Show"
*1986: Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan – "The Golden Girls"
*1987: Hugh Wilson – "Frank's Place"
*1989: Diane English – "Murphy Brown"

1990s

*1990: Bob Brush – "The Wonder Years"
*1991: Gary Dontzig, Steven Peterman – "Murphy Brown"
*1992: Elaine Pope, Larry Charles – "Seinfeld"
*1993: Larry David – "Seinfeld"
*1994: Peter Casey, David Lee – "Frasier"
*1995: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano – "Frasier"
*1996: Joe Keenan (writer), Christopher Lloyd , Rob Greenberg, Jack Burditt, Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano, Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo – "Frasier"
*1997: Ellen DeGeneres, Mark Driscoll , Dava Savel, Tracy Newman, Jonathan Stark – "Ellen"
*1998: Peter Tolan, Garry Shandling – "The Larry Sanders Show"
*1999: Jay Kogen – "Frasier"

2000s

*2000: Linwood Boomer – "Malcolm in the Middle"
*2001: Alex Reid – "Malcolm in the Middle"
*2002: Larry Wilmore – "The Bernie Mac Show"
*2003: Tucker Cawley – "Everybody Loves Raymond"
*2004: Mitchell Hurwitz – "Arrested Development"
*2005: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely – "Arrested Development"
*2006: Greg Garcia – "My Name is Earl"

;2007
*"30 Rock" - Robert Carlock for "Jack-Tor"
*"30 Rock" - Tina Fey for "Tracy Does Conan"
*"Extras" - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for "Daniel Radcliffe"
*"The Office" - Greg Daniels for "Gay Witch Hunt""
*"The Office" - Michael Schur for "The Negotiation"

;2008
*"30 Rock" - Jack Burditt for "Rosemary's Baby"
*"30 Rock" - Tina Fey for "Cooter"
*"Flight of the Conchords" - James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, and Bret McKenzie for "Yoko"
*"Pushing Daisies" - Bryan Fuller for "Pie-Lette"
*"The Office" - Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky for "Dinner Party"