Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series is a category in the Primetime Emmy Awards. It is awarded annually to the best variety show or similarly formatted program of the year.
Since 1994, late-night talk shows have won all of the awards in that time span; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has won the award consecutively since 2003, the longest winning streak for a television show in Emmy history.[1]
Award winners
- 1951: The Alan Young Show, CBS (Best Variety Show)
- 1952: Your Show of Shows, NBC (Best Variety Show); The Red Skelton Show, NBC (Best Comedy Show)
- 1953: Your Show of Shows, NBC (Best Variety Show)
- 1954: Omnibus, CBS
- 1955: Disneyland, ABC
- 1956: Toast of the Town, CBS
- 1957: The Tonight Show, NBC
- 1958: The Tonight Show, NBC
- 1959: An Evening with Fred Astaire, NBC
- 1960: The Garry Moore Show, CBS
- 1961: Astaire Time, NBC
- 1962: The Garry Moore Show, CBS
- 1963: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
- 1964: The Danny Kaye Show, CBS
- 1965: no information
- 1966: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
- 1967: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
- 1968: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, NBC (Outstanding Variety or Musical Series)
- 1969: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, NBC
- 1970: The David Frost Show, Syndicated (Outstanding Variety or Musical Series)
- 1971: no information
- 1972: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
- 1973: The Julie Andrews Hour, ABC
- 1974: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
- 1975: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
- 1976: Saturday Night Live, NBC
- 1977: Van Dyke and Company, NBC
- 1978: The Muppet Show, Syndicated
- 1979: Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin, NBC
- 1980: Baryshnikov on Broadway, ABC
- 1981: Lily: Sold Out, CBS
- 1982: Night of 100 Stars, ABC
- 1983: Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, NBC
- 1984: The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
- 1985: Motown Returns to the Apollo, NBC
- 1986: The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
- 1987: The 41st Annual Tony Awards, CBS
- 1988: Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration, CBS
- 1989: The Tracey Ullman Show, FOX
- 1990: In Living Color, FOX
- 1991: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards, ABC
- 1992: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC
- 1993: Saturday Night Live, NBC
- 1994: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
- 1995: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
- 1996: Dennis Miller Live, HBO
- 1997: Tracey Takes On..., HBO
- 1998: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
- 1999: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
2000s
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2010s
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- 2011
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