Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

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The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series is a category in the Primetime Emmy Awards. It is awarded annually to the best variety show or similarly formatted program of the year.

Since 1994, late-night talk shows have won all of the awards in that time span; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has won the award consecutively since 2003, the longest winning streak for a television show in Emmy history.^[1]

Award winners

• 1951: The Alan Young Show, CBS (Best Variety Show)
• 1952: Your Show of Shows, NBC (Best Variety Show); The Red Skelton Show, NBC (Best Comedy Show)
• 1953: Your Show of Shows, NBC (Best Variety Show)
• 1954: Omnibus, CBS
• 1955: Disneyland, ABC
• 1956: Toast of the Town, CBS
• 1957: The Tonight Show, NBC
• 1958: The Tonight Show, NBC
• 1959: An Evening with Fred Astaire, NBC
• 1960: The Garry Moore Show, CBS
• 1961: Astaire Time, NBC
• 1962: The Garry Moore Show, CBS
• 1963: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
• 1964: The Danny Kaye Show, CBS
• 1965: no information
• 1966: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
• 1967: The Andy Williams Show, NBC
• 1968: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, NBC (Outstanding Variety or Musical Series)
• 1969: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, NBC
• 1970: The David Frost Show, Syndicated (Outstanding Variety or Musical Series)
• 1971: no information
• 1972: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
• 1973: The Julie Andrews Hour, ABC
• 1974: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
• 1975: The Carol Burnett Show, CBS
• 1976: Saturday Night Live, NBC
• 1977: Van Dyke and Company, NBC
• 1978: The Muppet Show, Syndicated
• 1979: Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin, NBC
• 1980: Baryshnikov on Broadway, ABC
• 1981: Lily: Sold Out, CBS
• 1982: Night of 100 Stars, ABC
• 1983: Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, NBC
• 1984: The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
• 1985: Motown Returns to the Apollo, NBC
• 1986: The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
• 1987: The 41st Annual Tony Awards, CBS
• 1988: Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration, CBS
• 1989: The Tracey Ullman Show, FOX
• 1990: In Living Color, FOX
• 1991: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards, ABC
• 1992: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC
• 1993: Saturday Night Live, NBC
• 1994: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
• 1995: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
• 1996: Dennis Miller Live, HBO
• 1997: Tracey Takes On..., HBO
• 1998: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
• 1999: Late Show with David Letterman, CBS

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