| Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series |
| Presenter: | Writers Guild of America |
| Country: | United States |
| Holder: | Lilla Zuckerman & Nora Zuckerman Poker Face (2023) |
| Website: | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best written comedy episodes of television series. It was first presented at the 13th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1961 and has been presented annually since the 17th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1965.
The years denote when the episode first aired. Though, due to the eligibility period, some nominees could have aired in a different year. The current eligibility period is December 1 to November 30. The winners are highlighted in gold.
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episodic, Longer Than 30 Minutes in Length | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
| Father Knows Best | "Margaret's Old Flame" | Dorothy Cooper | CBS | |
| The Danny Thomas Show | "Linda Wants to Be a Boy" | Charles Stewart & Jack Elinson | CBS | |
| My Three Sons | "Chip off the Old Block" | George Tibbles | ABC | |
| Comedy/Variety, Any Length | ||||
| 1961 [1] | ||||
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Manhunt" | Charles Stewart & Jack Elinson | CBS | |
| The Art Carney Special | "Everybody's Doin' It" | Herbert Sargent | NBC | |
| The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope | Lester A. White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee and Norman Sullivan | |||
| 1962 | ||||
| Car 54, Where Are You? | "I Won't Go" | Nat Hiken and Gary Belkin | NBC | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Where Did I Come From?" | Carl Reiner | CBS | |
| My Three Sons | "Birds and Bees" | George Tibbles | ABC | |
| 1963 | ||||
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney's First Car" | Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum | CBS | |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney Mends a Broken Heart" | Aaron Ruben | CBS | |
| The Bob Hope Christmas Show | Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, John Rapp, Lester A. White, Charles Lee, Norman Sullivan and Gig Henry | NBC | ||
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "It May Look Like a Walnut" | Carl Reiner | CBS | |
| I'm Dickens, He's Fenster | "A Small Matter of Being Fired" | Leonard B. Stern and Don Hinkley | ABC | |
| My Three Sons | "When I Was Your Age" | Ernest Chambers | ||
| Episodic Comedy | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Shoplifters" | Bill Idelson & Sam Bobrick | CBS | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "My Husband is the Best One" | Martin Ragaway | ||
| The Danny Thomas Show | "Bowling Partners" | Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall | CBS | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "October Eve" | Bill Persky & Sam Denoff | ||
| "Turtles, Ties and Toreadors" | John Whedon | |||
| 1965 | ||||
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Br-room, Br-room" | Dale McRaven & Carl Kleinschmitt | CBS | |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Dash Riprock, You Cad" | Paul Henning & Mark Tuttle | ABC | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "4½" | Garry Marshall & Jerry Belson | CBS | |
| "Romances, Roses and Rye Bread" | ||||
| Dr. Kildare | "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House" | Boris Sobelman | NBC | |
| 1966 | ||||
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "You Ought to Be in Pictures" | Jack Winter | CBS | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" | Rick Mittleman | CBS | |
| Gidget | "The Great Kahuna" | ABC | ||
| Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | "Opie Joins the Marines" | Aaron Ruben | CBS | |
| 1967 | ||||
| The Jackie Gleason Show | "Movies Are Better than Ever" | Marvin Marx, Walter Stone and Rod Parker | CBS | |
| Get Smart | "Bronzefinger" | Lila Garrett & Bernie Kahn | NBC | |
| "Where-What-Who Am I?" | Barry Blitzer & Ray Brenner | |||
| That Girl | "Rain, Snow and Rice" | James L. Brooks | ABC | |
| 1968 | ||||
| Get Smart | "Viva Smart" | Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick and Norman Paul | NBC | |
| He & She | "Before You Bury Me, Can I Say Something?" | Jim Parker & Arnold Margolin | CBS | |
| "Knock, Knock...Who's There? Fernando!...Fernando Who?" | Allan Burns & Chris Hayward | |||
| "The Old Man and the She" | Leonard B. Stern & Arne Sultan | |||
| 1969 | ||||
| Room 222 | "Funny Boy" | Allan Burns | ABC | |
| The Bill Cosby Show | "Growing, Growing, Grown" | Kenny Solms & Gail Parent | NBC | |
| Get Smart | "The Apes of Rath" | Lloyd Turner & Gordon Whitey Mitchell | CBS | |
| "Ice Station Siegfried" | Arne Sultan & Chris Hayward | |||
| The Jackie Gleason Show | "Play it Again, Norton" | Walter Stone, Rod Parker & Robert Hilliard | ||
| My World and Welcome to It | "Little Girls are Sugar & Spice, and Not Always Nice!" | Rick Mittleman | NBC | |
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 [2] | ||||
| Room 222 | "The Valedictorian" | Richard DeRoy | ABC | |
| The Governor & J.J. | "Check the Check" | Arne Sultan & Earl Barret | CBS | |
| My World and Welcome to It | "The Fourth Estate" | Lila Garrett & Bernie Kahn | NBC | |
| Room 222 | "Funny Money" | Steve Pritzker | ABC | |
| 1971 [3] | ||||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary" | Martin Cohan | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "Christmas at the Bunkers" | Don Nicholl | CBS | |
| "Edith's Accident" | ||||
| "Gloria has a Belly Full" | Jerry Mayer | |||
| "Mike's Problem" | ||||
| "Oh, My Aching Back" | Stanley Ralph Ross | |||
| 1972 [4] | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Chief Surgeon Who?" | Larry Gelbart | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "Edith's Problem" | CBS | ||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Good-Time News" | Allan Burns & James L. Brooks | ||
| Maude | "Flashback" | Alan J. Levitt | ||
| The Odd Couple | "The Pen is Mightier Than the Pencil" | Jack Winter | ABC | |
| 1973 [5] | ||||
| Maude | "Walter's Problem" | Bob Weiskopf & Bob Schiller | CBS | |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Lars Affair" | Ed. Weinberger | CBS | |
| M*A*S*H | "Carry On, Hawkeye" | |||
| "The Incubator" | Larry Gelbart & Laurence Marks | |||
| "Radar's Report" | ||||
| "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" | Carl Kleinschmitt | |||
| "Tuttle" | Bruce Shelly & David Ketchum | |||
| 1974 | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "O.R." | Larry Gelbart & Laurence Marks | CBS | |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?" | Ed. Weinberger & Stan Daniels | CBS | |
| M*A*S*H | "Private Charles Lamb" | Sid Dorfman | ||
| Rhoda | "Parents' Day" | Charlotte Brown | ||
| "You Can Go Home Again" | Pat Nardo & Gloria Banta | |||
| 1975 | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Welcome to Korea" | Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell and Larry Gelbart | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "Archie the Hero" | Lou Derman & Bill Davenport | CBS | |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Chuckles Bites the Dust" | David Lloyd | ||
| "Edie Gets Married" | Bob Ellison | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Big Mac" | Laurence Marks | ||
| Rhoda | "Ida's Doctor" | Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher | ||
| 1976 | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Dear Sigmund" | Alan Alda | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "Joey's Baptism" | Milt Josefsberg, Mel Tolkin and Larry Rhine | CBS | |
| Barney Miller | "The Evacuation" | ABC | ||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary's Insomnia" | David Lloyd | CBS | |
| "My Son, the Genius" | Bob Ellison | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Hawkeye, Get Your Gun" | |||
| 1977 | ||||
| All in the Family | "Archie Get the Business" | Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "The Joys of Sex" | Erik Tarloff | CBS | |
| Barney Miller | "Copy Cat" | Douglas Wyman & Tony Sheehan | ABC | |
| "Goodbye, Mr. Fish", Part 2 | Reinhold Weege | |||
| The Bob Newhart Show | "A Girl in Her Twenties" | Laura Levine | CBS | |
| "A Jackie Story" | Lloyd Garver | |||
| The Jeffersons | "Once a Friend" | Michael S. Baser & Kim Weiskopf | ||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Critic" | David Lloyd | ||
| "The Last Show" | James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Lloyd and Bob Ellison | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Fade Out, Fade In" | Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum | ||
| 1978 | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | Gary David Goldberg | CBS | |
| All in the Family | "California, Here We Are" | Milt Josefsberg, Phil Sharp, Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | CBS | |
| Barney Miller | "The Ghost" | Reinhold Weege | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "Point of View" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | CBS | |
| Mork & Mindy | "Pilot" | Dale McRaven | ABC | |
| Rhoda | "Rhoda vs. Ida" | Bob Ellison | CBS | |
| Taxi | "Blind Date" | Michael Leeson | ABC | |
| "Memories of Cab 804" | Barry Kemp | |||
| 1979 [6] | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Are You Now, Margaret?" | Thad Mumford & Dan Wilcox | CBS | |
| Taxi | "The Reluctant Father" | Ken Estin | ABC | |
| Barney Miller | "The Indian" | ABC | ||
| M*A*S*H | "Goodbye, Radar" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | CBS | |
| "Period of Adjustment" | Jim Mulligan & John Rappaport | |||
| "The Young and the Restless" | Mitch Markowitz | |||
| Mork & Mindy | "Dr. Morkenstein" | Bruce Kalish & Philip John Taylor | ABC | |
| "Mork's Mixed Emotions" | Tom Tenowich & Ed Scharlach | |||
| Taxi | "Elaine's Secret Admirer" | Barry Kemp | ||
| "Honor Thy Father" | Glen and Les Charles |
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||
| M*A*S*H | "Heal Thyself" | CBS | ||
| The Associates | "The Censors" | Stan Daniels & Ed. Weinberger | ABC | |
| Barney Miller | "The Child Stealers" | Frank Dungan & Jeff Stein | ||
| M*A*S*H | "Bottle Fatigue" | Thad Mumford & Dan Wilcox | CBS | |
| "Morale Victory" | John Rappaport | |||
| Taxi | "Alex Jumps Out of an Airplane" | Ken Estin | ABC | |
| "Art Work" | Glen and Les Charles | |||
| United States | "Sometimes" | Larry Gelbart & Everett Greenbaum | NBC | |
| 1981 [7] | ||||
| Barney Miller | "Stormy Weather" | Nat Mauldin | ABC | |
| Barney Miller | "Field Associate" | Jordan Moffet | ABC | |
| The Greatest American Hero | "Pilot" | Stephen J. Cannell | ||
| M*A*S*H | "No Sweat" | John Rappaport | CBS | |
| "A War for All Seasons" | Dan Wilcox & Thad Mumford | |||
| Park Place | "Crazy Judge" | Reinhold Weege | ||
| Taxi | "The Boss' Wife" | Ken Estin | ABC | |
| "Tony's Sister and Jim" | Michael Leeson | |||
| 1982 | ||||
| Barney Miller | "Hunger Strike" | ABC | ||
| Best of the West | "The Calico Kid Returns" | Mitch Markowitz | ABC | |
| M*A*S*H | "The Birthday Girls" | Karen Hall | CBS | |
| Making the Grade | "Pilot" | Gary David Goldberg | ||
| Open All Night | "Terry Runs Away" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | ABC | |
| Taxi | "Elegant Iggy" | Ken Estin | ||
| 1983 [8] | ||||
| Cheers | "The Boys in the Bar" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | NBC | |
| "Give Me a Ring Sometime" | Glen and Les Charles | |||
| Cheers | "Let Me Count the Ways" | Heide Perlman | NBC | |
| "The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One" | David Lloyd | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" | Alan Alda, Burt Metcalfe, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall | CBS | |
| Taxi | "Jim's Inheritance" | Ken Estin | NBC | |
| "Scenskees from a Marriage" | Howard Gewirtz & Ian Praiser | |||
| 1984 [9] | ||||
| Cheers | "Sumner's Return" | Michael J. Weithorn | NBC | |
| AfterM*A*S*H | "Night Shift" | Everett Greenbaum & Elliott Reid | CBS | |
| Cheers | "Affairs of the Heart" | Heide Perlman | NBC | |
| "Old Flames" | David Angell | |||
| The Duck Factory | "Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip" | Allan Burns | ||
| Family Ties | "Not an Affair to Remember" | Gary David Goldberg & Ruth Bennett | ||
| Night Court | "Once in Love with Harry" | Reinhold Weege | ||
| Too Close for Comfort | "Ship Mates" | Arne Sultan & Earl Barret | ABC | |
| 1985 [10] | ||||
| Moonlighting | "Pilot" | Glenn Gordon Caron | ABC | |
| Steambath | "Madison Avenue Madness" | David Pollock & Elias Davis | Showtime | |
| Cheers | "The Executive's Executioner" | Heide Perlman | NBC | |
| "Fairy Tales Can Come True" | Sam Simon | |||
| The Cosby Show | "Good-Bye Mr. Fish" | Earl Pomerantz | ||
| Webster | "The Uh-Oh Feeling" | Steven Sunshine & Madeline Sunshine | ABC | |
| 1986 [11] | ||||
| Kate & Allie | "Allie's Affair" | Bob Randall | CBS | |
| All Is Forgiven | "I Can't Say No" | Ian Praiser & Howard Gewirtz | NBC | |
| The Cosby Show | "Theo's Holiday" | John Markus, Carmen Finestra & Matt Williams | ||
| The Golden Girls | "Rose's Mother" | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | ||
| Night Court | "Best of Friends" | Howard Ostroff | ||
| 1987 [12] | ||||
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | "Here's Why Cosmetics Should Come in Unbreakable Bottles" | Jay Tarses | NBC | |
| Family Ties | "A, My Name is Alex" | Gary David Goldberg & Alan Uger | ||
| The Golden Girls | "Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" | Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan | ||
| Cheers | "Never Love a Goalie, Part I" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | NBC | |
| Family Ties | "My Back Pages" | Ruth Bennett | ||
| The Golden Girls | "A Piece of Cake" | Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman, Mort Nathan and Barry Fanaro | ||
| Night Court | "Contempt of Courting" | Tom Straw | ||
| 1988 [13] | ||||
| The Wonder Years | "My Father's Office" | Carol Black & Neal Marlens | ABC | |
| Family Ties | "The Way We Were" | Gary David Goldberg | NBC | |
| The Golden Girls | "Old Friends" | Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman | ||
| Night Court | "No Hard Feelings" | Tom Straw | ||
| The Slap Maxwell Story | "Pilot" | Jay Tarses | ABC | |
| The Wonder Years | "Pilot" | Neal Marlens & Carol Black | ||
| 1989 [14] | ||||
| The Wonder Years | "Coda" | Todd W. Langen | ABC | |
| Cheers | "Jumping Jerks" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | NBC | |
| "Please, Mr. Postman" | Brian Pollack & Mert Rich | |||
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | "Here's Why You Order From the Spanish Side of the Menu" | Eric Overmyer | Lifetime | |
| Murphy Brown | "Respect" | Diane English | CBS | |
| The Wonder Years | "Pottery Will Get You Nowhere" | Matthew Carlson | ABC |
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 [15] | ||||
| Murphy Brown | "Brown Like Me" | Diane English | CBS | |
| Designing Women | "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century" | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | CBS | |
| Seinfeld | "The Stake Out" | Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld | NBC | |
| The Wonder Years | "Good-bye" | Bob Brush | ABC | |
| "The Powers That Be" | David M. Stern | |||
| "Rock 'N' Roll" | Bob Stevens | |||
| 1991 [16] | ||||
| Cheers | "Rat Girl" | Ken Levine & David Isaacs | NBC | |
| Coach | "Christmas Brains" | John Peaslee & Judd Pillott | ABC | |
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | "Here's a Little Touch of Harry in the Night" | Jay Tarses | Lifetime | |
| Evening Shade | "A Day in the Life of Wood Newton" | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | CBS | |
| The Golden Girls | "Ebbtide's Revenge" | Marc Sotkin | NBC | |
| 1992 [17] | ||||
| Murphy Brown | "Uh-Oh, Part 2" | CBS | ||
| Brooklyn Bridge | "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" | Gary David Goldberg | CBS | |
| Seinfeld | "The New Friend" | Larry David & Larry Levin | NBC | |
| "The Parking Space" | Larry David & Greg Daniels | |||
| "The Stranded" | Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld and Matt Goldman | |||
| 1993 [18] [19] | ||||
| Seinfeld | "The Contest" | Larry David | NBC | |
| Roseanne | "The Dark Ages" | Eric Gilliland & Mike Gandolfi | ABC | |
| "Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home" | Amy Sherman | |||
| Seinfeld | "The Outing" | Larry Charles | NBC | |
| 1994 [20] | ||||
| Seinfeld | "The Mango" | NBC | ||
| Frasier | "A Midwinter Night's Dream" | Chuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-Giordano | NBC | |
| Roseanne | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" | ABC | ||
| "A Stash from the Past" | Kevin Abbott | |||
| Seinfeld | "The Hamptons" | Peter Mehlman & Carol Leifer | NBC | |
| 1995 [21] | ||||
| Frasier | "The Matchmaker" | Joe Keenan | NBC | |
| Frasier | "The Club" | Elias Davis & David Pollock | NBC | |
| Friends | "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" | Jeff Greenstein & Jeff Strauss | ||
| The Larry Sanders Show | "Arthur After Hours" | Peter Tolan | HBO | |
| "Hank's New Assistant" | John Riggi | |||
| "Roseanne's Return" | ||||
| Mad About You | "Our Fifteen Minutes" | Jack Burditt | NBC | |
| "The Ride Home" | Liz Coe | |||
| 1996 [22] | ||||
| Seinfeld | "The Pool Guy" | David Mandel | NBC | |
| The Larry Sanders Show | "Eight" | Peter Tolan | HBO | |
| Seinfeld | "The Soup Nazi" | Spike Feresten | NBC | |
| "The Sponge" | Peter Mehlman | |||
| 1997 [23] | ||||
| Seinfeld | "The Fatigues" | Greg Kavet & Andy Robin | NBC | |
| Ellen | "The Puppy Episode" | ABC | ||
| Frasier | "The Impossible Dream" | Rob Greenberg | NBC | |
| The Larry Sanders Show | "The Book" | Maya Forbes | HBO | |
| "Ellen, or Isn't She?" | ||||
| Seinfeld | "The Bizarro Jerry" | David H. Mandel | NBC | |
| "The Chicken Roaster" | Alec Berg & Jeff Schaffer | |||
| 1998 [24] [25] | ||||
| Frasier | "Frasier's Imaginary Friend" | Rob Greenberg | NBC | |
| Dharma & Greg | "Pilot" | Dottie Dartland & Chuck Lorre | ABC | |
| Ellen | "Emma" | Lawrence Broch | ||
| Murphy Brown | "Never Can Say Goodbye" | Diane English | CBS | |
| 1999 [26] | ||||
| Frasier | "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz" | Jay Kogen | NBC | |
| Dharma & Greg | "The Paper Hat Anniversary" | ABC | ||
| Friends | "The One Where Everybody Finds Out" | Alexa Junge | NBC | |
| Sex and the City | "Evolution" | Cindy Chupack | HBO | |
| "Four Women and a Funeral" | Jenny Bicks |
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 [27] | ||||
| Frasier | "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue" | Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan | NBC | |
| Frasier | "Out with Dad" | Joe Keenan | NBC | |
| Sex and the City | "Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman" | Cindy Chupack | HBO | |
| "Ex and the City" | Michael Patrick King | |||
| Will & Grace | "Hey La, Hey La, My Ex-Boyfriend's Back" | Jeff Greenstein | NBC | |
| 2001 [28] | ||||
| Everybody Loves Raymond | "Italy" | Philip Rosenthal | CBS | |
| Malcolm in the Middle | "Bowling" | Alex Reid | Fox | |
| "The Grandparents" | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | |||
| Sex and the City | "Just Say Yes" | Cindy Chupack | HBO | |
| "My Motherboard, My Self" | Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky | |||
| Titus | "The Pendulum" | Christopher Titus | Fox | |
| 2002 [29] | ||||
| Frasier | "Rooms with a View" | Dan O'Shannon, Lori Kirkland and Bob Daily | NBC | |
| The Bernie Mac Show | "Pilot" | Larry Wilmore | Fox | |
| Ed | "The Wedding" | Rob Burnett & Jon Beckerman | NBC | |
| Scrubs | "My First Day" | Bill Lawrence | ||
| Sex and the City | "Change of a Dress" | Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky | HBO | |
| "I Heart N.Y." | Michael Patrick King | |||
| "Plus One Is the Loneliest Number" | Cindy Chupack | |||
| 2003 [30] | ||||
| Frasier | "No Sex, Please, We're Skittish" | Bob Daily | NBC | |
| Malcolm in the Middle | "Day Care" | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | Fox | |
| "Malcolm Films Reese" | Dan Kopelman | |||
| Sex and the City | "A Woman's Right to Shoes" | Jenny Bicks | HBO | |
| 2004 [31] | ||||
| Arrested Development | "Pier Pressure" | Jim Vallely & Mitchell Hurwitz | Fox | |
| Malcolm in the Middle | "Ida's Boyfriend" | Neil Thompson | ||
| Sex and the City | "The Ick Factor" | Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky | HBO | |
| "Splat!" | Jenny Bicks & Cindy Chupack | |||
| Wonderfalls | "The Wax Lion" | Fox | ||
| 2005 [32] [33] | ||||
| Weeds | "You Can't Miss the Bear" | Jenji Kohan | Showtime | |
| Desperate Housewives | "Next" | Jenna Bans & Kevin Murphy | ABC | |
| Kitchen Confidential | "Exile on Main Street" | David Hemingson | Fox | |
| Malcolm in the Middle | "Motivational Speaker" | Rob Ulin | ||
| My Name Is Earl | "Pilot" | Greg Garcia | NBC | |
| The Office | "Diversity Day" | B. J. Novak | ||
| 2006 [34] [35] | ||||
| The Office | "Casino Night" | Steve Carell | NBC | |
| Desperate Housewives | "Don't Look at Me" | Josh Senter | ABC | |
| "It Takes Two" | Kevin Murphy & Jenna Bans | |||
| Malcolm in the Middle | "Bomb Shelter" | Rob Ulin | Fox | |
| My Name Is Earl | "Jump for Joy" | Vali Chandrasekaran | NBC | |
| The Office | "The Coup" | Paul Lieberstein | ||
| 2007 [36] | ||||
| The Office | "The Job" | Paul Lieberstein & Michael Schur | NBC | |
| 30 Rock | "Hard Ball" | Matt Hubbard | NBC | |
| Flight of the Conchords | "Sally Returns" | James Bobin, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie | HBO | |
| The Office | "Local Ad" | B. J. Novak | NBC | |
| "Phyllis' Wedding" | Caroline Williams | |||
| Pushing Daisies | "Pie-lette" | Bryan Fuller | ABC | |
| 2008 [37] [38] | ||||
| 30 Rock | "Succession" | Andrew Guest & John Riggi | NBC | |
| 30 Rock | "Believe in the Stars" | Robert Carlock | NBC | |
| "Cooter" | Tina Fey | |||
| My Name Is Earl | "Monkeys Take a Bath" | Greg Garcia | ||
| The Office | "Crime Aid" | Charlie Grandy | ||
| Ugly Betty | "Crush'd" | Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally | ABC | |
| 2009 [39] [40] | ||||
| 30 Rock | "Apollo, Apollo" | Robert Carlock | NBC | |
| Modern Family | "Pilot" | Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd | ABC | |
| 30 Rock | "Reunion" | Matt Hubbard | NBC | |
| Eastbound & Down | "Chapter 1" | Ben Best, Jody Hill and Danny McBride | HBO | |
| The Office | "Broke" | Charles Grandy | NBC | |
| "Gossip" | Paul Lieberstein |
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 [41] | ||||
| 30 Rock | "When It Rains, It Pours" | Robert Carlock | NBC | |
| 30 Rock | "Anna Howard Shaw Day" | Matt Hubbard | NBC | |
| Modern Family | "Earthquake" | Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh | ABC | |
| "Starry Night" | Danny Zuker | |||
| The Office | "WUPHF.com" | Aaron Shure | NBC | |
| The Sarah Silverman Program | "NightMayor" | Dan Sterling | Comedy Central | |
| 2011 [42] | ||||
| Modern Family | "Caught in the Act" | Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman | ABC | |
| 30 Rock | "Queen of Jordan" | Tracey Wigfield | NBC | |
| Modern Family | "Mother's Day" | Dan O'Shannon & Ilana Wernick | ABC | |
| The Office | "Goodbye, Michael: Part 2" | Greg Daniels | NBC | |
| "PDA" | Robert Padnick | |||
| Weeds | "Object Impermanence" | Stephen Falk | Showtime | |
| 2012 [43] | ||||
| Modern Family | "Virgin Territory" | Elaine Ko | ABC | |
| 30 Rock | "Leap Day" | Luke Del Tredici | NBC | |
| Episodes | "Episode Nine" | David Crane & Jeffrey Klarik | Showtime | |
| Modern Family | "Little Bo Bleep" | Cindy Chupack | ABC | |
| "Mistery Date" | Jeffrey Richman | |||
| Parks and Recreation | "The Debate" | Amy Poehler | NBC | |
| 2013 [44] | ||||
| 30 Rock | "Hogcock!" | Jack Burditt & Robert Carlock | NBC | |
| Modern Family | "Career Day" | Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh | ABC | |
| "Farm Strong" | Elaine Ko | |||
| Orange Is the New Black | "I Wasn't Ready" | Liz Friedman & Jenji Kohan | Netflix | |
| "Lesbian Request Denied" | Sian Heder | |||
| Parks and Recreation | "Leslie and Ben" | Michael Schur & Alan Yang | NBC | |
| 2014 [45] | ||||
| Louie | "So Did the Fat Lady" | Louis C.K. | FX | |
| Modern Family | "The Cold" | Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz | ABC | |
| "Three Dinners" | Abraham Higginbotham, Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman | |||
| New Girl | "Landline" | Rob Rosell | Fox | |
| Orange Is the New Black | "Low Self Esteem City" | Nick Jones | Netflix | |
| Transparent | "The Wilderness" | Ethan Kuperberg | Amazon | |
| 2015 [46] | ||||
| Silicon Valley | "Sand Hill Shuffle" | Clay Tarver | HBO | |
| Black-ish | "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Gun" | Peter Saji | ABC | |
| The Last Man on Earth | "Alive in Tucson" | Will Forte | Fox | |
| Maron | "Racegate" | Dave Anthony | IFC | |
| Modern Family | "Connection Lost" | Megan Ganz & Steven Levitan | ABC | |
| Veep | "Joint Session" | HBO | ||
| 2016 [47] | ||||
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | "Kimmy Goes on a Playdate!" | Robert Carlock | Netflix | |
| Atlanta | "Streets on Lock" | Stephen Glover | FX | |
| One Mississippi | "Pilot" | Diablo Cody & Tig Notaro | Amazon | |
| Son of Zorn | "A Taste of Zephyria" | Dan Mintz | Fox | |
| Speechless | "R-A-Y-C-Ray-Cation" | Carrie Rosen & Seth Kurland | ABC | |
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | "Kimmy Finds Her Mom!" | Tina Fey & Sam Means | Netflix | |
| 2017 [48] | ||||
| Will & Grace | "Rosario's Quinceanera" | Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally | NBC | |
| The Carmichael Show | "Intervention" | Willie Hunter | NBC | |
| Grace and Frankie | "The Burglary" | Brendan McCarthy & David Budin | Netflix | |
| Trial & Error | "Chapter 13: The Verdict" | Jeff Astrof | NBC | |
| Veep | "Judge" | Ted Cohen | HBO | |
| 2018 [49] | ||||
| Barry | "" | Alec Berg & Bill Hader | HBO | |
| Forever | "Another Place" | Amazon | ||
| The Kids Are Alright | "Pilot" | Tim Doyle | ABC | |
| Orange Is the New Black | "Who Knows Better Than I" | Jenji Kohan | Netflix | |
| Santa Clarita Diet | "Halibut!" | Victor Fresco | ||
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | "Kimmy and the Beest!" | Robert Carlock | ||
| 2019 [50] | ||||
| Dead to Me | "Pilot" | Liz Feldman | Netflix | |
| Living with Yourself | "Nice Knowing You" | Timothy Greenberg | Netflix | |
| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | "It's Comedy or Cabbage" | Amy Sherman-Palladino | Amazon | |
| Orange Is the New Black | "Here's Where We Get Off" | Jenji Kohan | Netflix | |
| On Becoming a God in Central Florida | "The Stinker Thinker" | Robert F. Funke and Matt Lutsky | Showtime | |
| Veep | "Veep" | David Mandel | HBO |