Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series is an annual award given to the best television comedy series of the year. From 1960 to 1964, this category was combined with the Comedy Specials (one time programs) category so that both type of programs competed for the same award during those years. "The Flintstones" and "Family Guy" are the only animated series to be nominated for the award. Outside the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox has won this award twice, with "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development", cable network HBO has
The Monkees (TV series) bucket seats with an extra third row bench where the rear deck should have been, and a parachute. The front grille sported the GTO emblem. "The Monkees" won two Emmy Awards in 1967: Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy (James Frawley, for the episode "Royal Flush"). Frawley was nominated for the same award the following season (for the episode "The Devil and Peter Tork"). Its win for Comedy Series was considered somewhat of an upset, as it bested long-time favorites "The Andy Griffith Show", "Bewitched", "Get Smart", and "Hogan's Heroes". For the first season, in 1966, the