Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The award is presented to the best performance by a lead actor in a television comedy series. Beginning with 1966, leading actors in comedy have competed alone. However, these comedic performances included actors from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:

# Ã¢ÂÂ Indicates a performance in a miniseries or television film, prior to the category's creation
ÃÂ§ Ã¢ÂÂ Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation

The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards are the first Emmys where there is no representation from any of the big four broadcast networks.

Winners and nominations

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1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Programs with multiple awards

4 wins

3 wins

2 wins

Performers with multiple wins

4 wins

Michael J. Fox (3 consecutive)
Kelsey Grammer (2 consecutive)
Carroll O'Connor (3 consecutive)
Jim Parsons (2 consecutive twice)

3 wins

Don Adams (consecutive)
John Lithgow (2 consecutive)
Tony Shalhoub (2 consecutive)
Dick Van Dyke (consecutive)

2 wins

Alan Alda
Alec Baldwin (consecutive)
Ted Danson
Bill Hader (consecutive)
Judd Hirsch
Jack Klugman
Richard Mulligan
Jason Sudeikis (consecutive)
Jeffrey Tambor (consecutive)
Jeremy Allen White (consecutive)

Programs with multiple nominations

11 nominations

Cheers
M*A*S*H

10 nominations

Frasier
The Odd Couple

8 nominations

All in the Family
Monk

7 nominations

6 nominations

5 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Performers with multiple nominations

14 nominations

Ted Danson*