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
57th Primetime Emmy Awards tributes to ABC-TV anchor Peter Jennings (who died seven weeks earlier) presented by rival anchors Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, and to talk show host Johnny Carson (who died on January 23, 2005) by close friend and "Late Show" host David Letterman. Also, the show featured "Emmy Idol", five segments in which famous TV stars performed popular TV theme songs in a format like "American Idol". "Everybody Loves Raymond" became the first comedy to have its final season win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series since "Barney Miller" in 1982. The CBS comedy series also tied for the