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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series
Awarded for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series
Country United States
Presented by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded 1951
Currently held by The Colbert Report (2014)
Official website emmys.com

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series was a category in the Primetime Emmy Awards. It was awarded annually to the best variety show or similarly formatted program of the year. The award was sometimes known by other names, such as “Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program” and “Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series”.

From 1979 to 1988, all of the award winners were single programs, although series were nominated for the award in some of those years. Since 1994, all of the winners in this category have been late-night talk shows.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won the award for ten years consecutively (2003–2012), the longest winning streak for a television show in Primetime Emmy Award history. In 2015, this category was separated into two categories – Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Variety Talk Series.



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