Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre, or even gender, specific. Beginning with 1970, supporting actors in comedy have competed alone. However, these comedic performances often 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

Winners and nominations

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

Programs with multiple wins

5 wins

The Andy Griffith Show (3 consecutive), (2 consecutive)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (3 consecutive), (2 consecutive)

4 wins

Frasier (2 consecutive)
Modern Family (3 consecutive)
Night Court (consecutive)

3 wins

Entourage (consecutive)
Everybody Loves Raymond (2 consecutive)
Taxi (consecutive)
Seinfeld (2 consecutive)

2 wins

All in the Family
The Bear (consecutive)
Caesar's Hour (consecutive)
Hogan's Heroes (consecutive)
The Jackie Gleason Show (consecutive)
M*A*S*H
Ted Lasso (consecutive)
Veep

Programs with multiple nominations

21 nominations

M*A*S*H

19 nominations

Cheers
Modern Family

13 nominations

Frasier
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

12 nominations

10 nominations

The Larry Sanders Show

9 nominations

Ted Lasso

8 nominations

7 nominations

Entourage
Will & Grace

6 nominations

5 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Performers with multiple wins