Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series is an Emmy presented to the best directing of a television comedy series.
Award winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
| Year | Show | Episode | Director(s) | Network |
| 1999-2000 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
"Pilot" |
Todd Holland |
Fox |
| Ally McBeal |
"Ally McBeal: The Musical, Almost" |
Bill D'Elia |
Fox |
| Everybody Loves Raymond |
"The Christmas Picture" |
Will Mackenzie |
CBS |
| Friends |
"The One That Could Have Been" |
Michael Lembeck |
NBC |
| Sports Night |
"Quo Vadimus" |
Thomas Schlamme |
ABC |
| Will & Grace |
"Homo for the Holidays" |
James Burrows |
NBC |
| 2000-01 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
"Bowling" |
Todd Holland |
Fox |
| Ed |
"Pilot" |
James Frawley |
NBC |
| Malcolm in the Middle |
"Flashback" |
Jeffrey Melman |
Fox |
| Sex and the City |
"Easy Come, Easy Go" |
Charles McDougall |
HBO |
| Will & Grace |
"Lows in the Mid-Eighties" |
James Burrows |
NBC |
| 2001-02 |
Sex and the City |
"The Real Me" |
Michael Patrick King |
HBO |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm |
"The Doll" |
Robert B. Weide |
HBO |
| Malcolm in the Middle |
"Christmas" |
Jeffrey Melman |
Fox |
| Scrubs |
"My Old Lady" |
Marc Buckland |
NBC |
| Will & Grace |
"A Chorus Lie" |
James Burrows |
| 2002-03 |
Curb Your Enthusiasm |
"Krazee-Eyez Killa" |
Robert B. Weide |
HBO |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm |
"Mary, Joseph, and Larry" |
David Steinberg |
HBO |
| "The Nanny from Hell" |
Larry Charles |
| "The Special Section" |
Bryan Gordon |
| Sex and the City |
"I Love a Charade" |
Michael Engler |
| Will & Grace |
"24" |
James Burrows |
NBC |
| 2003-04 |
Arrested Development |
"Pilot" |
Anthony & Joe Russo |
Fox |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm |
"The 5 Wood" |
Bryan Gordon |
HBO |
| "The Car Pool Lane" |
Robert B. Weide |
| "The Survivor" |
Larry Charles |
| Sex and the City |
"An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux" |
Tim Van Patten |
| 2004-05 |
Desperate Housewives |
"Pilot" |
Charles McDougall |
ABC |
| Entourage |
"Pilot" |
David Frankel |
HBO |
| Everybody Loves Raymond |
"The Finale" |
Gary Halvorson |
CBS |
| Monk |
"Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine" |
Randall Zisk |
USA |
| Will & Grace |
"It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World" |
James Burrows |
NBC |
| 2005-06 |
My Name is Earl |
"Pilot" |
Marc Buckland |
NBC |
| The Comeback |
"Valerie Does Another Classic Leno" |
Michael Patrick King |
HBO |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm |
"The Christ Nail" |
Robert B. Weide |
| Entourage |
"Oh, Mandy" |
Daniel Attias |
| "Sundance Kids" |
Julian Farino |
| Weeds |
"Good Shit Lollipop" |
Craig Zisk |
Showtime |
| 2006-07 |
Ugly Betty |
"Pilot" |
Richard Shepard |
ABC |
| 30 Rock |
"The Break-Up" |
Scott Ellis |
NBC |
| Entourage |
"One Day in the Valley" |
Julian Farino |
HBO |
| Extras |
"Orlando Bloom" |
Stephen Merchant |
| The Office |
"Gay Witch Hunt" |
Ken Kwapis |
NBC |
| Scrubs |
"My Musical" |
Will Mackenzie |
| 2007-08 |
Pushing Daisies |
"Pie-lette" |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
ABC |
| 30 Rock |
"Rosemary's Baby" |
Michael Engler |
NBC |
| Entourage |
"No Cannes Do" |
Daniel Attias |
HBO |
| Flight of the Conchords |
"Sally Returns" |
James Bobin |
| The Office |
"Goodbye, Toby" |
Paul Feig |
NBC |
| "Money" |
Paul Lieberstein |
| 2008-09 |
The Office |
"Stress Relief" |
Jeff Blitz |
NBC |
| 30 Rock |
"Apollo, Apollo" |
Millicent Shelton |
NBC |
| "Generalissimo" |
Todd Holland |
| "Reunion" |
Beth McCarthy-Miller |
| Entourage |
"Tree Trippers" |
Julian Farino |
HBO |
| Flight of the Conchords |
"The Tough Brets" |
James Bobin |
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2010s
Total awards by network
- CBS – 15
- ABC – 14
- NBC – 14
- Fox – 4
- HBO – 4
- Amazon – 1
Programs with multiple awards
- 4 awards
- M*A*S*H (CBS)
- Modern Family (ABC)
- 3 awards
- 2 awards
- All in the Family (CBS)
- Cheers (NBC)
- The Cosby Show (NBC)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
- Malcolm in the Middle (Fox)
- Mary Tyler Moore (CBS)
- Taxi (ABC)
- The Wonder Years (ABC)
Programs with multiple nominations
- 26 nominations
- 11 nominations
- 10 nominations
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
- 8 nominations
- 30 Rock (NBC)
- Mary Tyler Moore (CBS)
- Modern Family (ABC)
- 7 nominations
- The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)
- Seinfeld (NBC)
- 6 nominations
- All in the Family (CBS)
- Entourage (HBO)
- The Golden Girls (NBC)
- Murphy Brown (CBS)
- Will & Grace (NBC)
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- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- Ally McBeal (Fox)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
- Friends (NBC)
- Glee (Fox)
- Louie (FX)
- Malcolm in the Middle (Fox)
- The Office (NBC)
- Sex and the City (HBO)
- 3 nominations
- Buffalo Bill (NBC)
- The Cosby Show (NBC)
- The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
- Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
- Frasier (NBC)
- Kate & Allie (CBS)
- The Red Skelton Show (NBC/CBS)
- Taxi (ABC/NBC)
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- 2 nominations
- 3rd Rock from the Sun (NBC)
- Barney Miller (ABC)
- The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
- Bewitched (ABC)
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (NBC/Lifetime)
- Designing Women (CBS)
- Dream On (HBO)
- Flight of the Conchords (HBO)
- The Garry Moore Show (CBS)
- Get Smart (NBC)
- Girls (HBO)
- Happy Days (ABC)
- The Jack Benny Show (CBS)
- Mad About You (NBC)
- Maude (CBS)
- The Monkees (NBC)
- Scrubs (NBC)
- Silicon Valley (HBO)
- Soap (ABC)
- Sports Night (ABC)
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