Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by |
Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, Master of None (2016) |
Official website | emmys |
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It recognizes writing excellence in regular comedic series, most of which can generally be described as situation comedies. It was first presented in 1955 as Outstanding Written Comedy Material.