The Emmy Awards highlight the best in television every year, handing out awards to lead and supporting actors and actresses along with plenty of television series in different categories.
Awards are handed out for everything from reality TV series to miniseries. But there are two awards in particular that are given out at the end of the broadcast and are the most anticipated ones: Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series.
When it comes to the hilarious comedy category, only 10 series have taken home the award over the last almost two decades. How do they rank against one another, though? Here's a look, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
10 Sex and the City (2001) – 71%
It's not surprising that this romantic comedy-drama, which won only once two years after it premiered in 1998, ranks last among the last 10 best comedy winners: it didn't really fit in the comedy category. The series, based on Candace Bushnell's novel of the same name, was more a romantic drama than it was a laugh out loud comedy. But it did become a critical part of pop culture.
Sex and the City told the story of Carrie Bradshaw, a single 30-something writer living in New York, and her three best friends, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda. They dated, they drank, they brunched, and they sported fabulous fashion week after week. After its six seasons, the series returned for two movies as well.
9 Everybody Loves Raymond (2005, 2003) – no score
With a rating of 7.1 on IMDb and 74 on review aggregator website Metacritic, it's safe to say that Everybody Loves Raymond would probably sit in the lower third of the pack among the last 10 winners. But it does not have a rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Airing for nine seasons, it was about Raymond, his wife and kids, and their dealings with his overbearing Italian American parents who lived across the street. It appears on lists of the best-written series ever, but when it comes to other Emmy winners of the last 19 years, it has since been beaten.
8 Arrested Development (2004) – 74%
Viewers were puzzled and outraged when Fox canceled this sitcom about the dysfunctional Bluth family after three seasons. So much so, in fact, that the series, which is narrated by Ron Howard and stars Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter, was resurrected by Netflix for a fourth and fifth season.
Arrested Development is considered to be one of the best TV shows of all time, yet it ranks near the bottom of the list in terms of Rotten Tomatoes ratings.
7 Friends (2002) – 78%
Arguably no show has ever had such a cultural impact as Friends. The series, its characters, quotable lines, and even the theme song, are pop culture staples. It lasted for 10 seasons from 1994 through to 2004 and a reunion special is set to stream on HBO Max, delayed due to coronavirus.
Even so, the daily happenings of five single 20-something friends in New York - Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, and Phoebe - wasn't enough to entice all critics to give the series higher than a B grade.
6 30 Rock (2009, 2008, 2007) – 78%
Tina Fey's Liz Lemon has also become a memorable character from the 2000s, along with the satirical sitcom the character appeared in. Based on Fey's own experiences as a head writer for sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock takes viewers behind the scenes of a fictional show just like it.
Premiering in 2006, it took home the best comedy award three years in a row thereafter. The show itself aired for seven seasons, through to 2013.
5 The Office (2006) – 81%
This mockumentary-style sitcom starred Steve Carrell as the boss of a branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, PA. Based on the British sitcom of the same name that starred Ricky Gervais, The Office featured a cast of characters who have all gone on to do big things, including John Krasinski, Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, and Ellie Kemper.
The single-camera series lasted nine seasons from 2005 through to 2013, and while it was immensely popular, with plenty of fans sad to see it end, the show only won this coveted award once.
4 Modern Family (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010) – 86%
Talk about a sweep! Modern Family debuted in 2009 and it was just the fresh comedy the primetime hours needed. An original concept, the show was funny, clever, witty, and had an amazing cast.
It's not surprising that the series won the top award five years in a row until it was finally beaten by Veep. The series ended in 2020 after its 11th season, but it will likely go down in history as one of the best sitcoms of the generation that wasn't a remake, reboot, sequel, revival, or adaptation of some other show from yesteryear.
3 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018) – 89%
This hilarious period comedy-drama has a talented cast led by Rachel Brosnahan as the title character along with Alex Borstein and Tony Shalhoub. After her husband throws her for a loop and says he's leaving her for his secretary, Midge Maisel goes on a bender and realizes she has a knack for stand-up comedy. She and her new manager Susie, who discovers her in the café she manages, then embark on a journey to try and help Midge make it big.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is not only hilarious but it's ground-breaking, telling the story of a strong, independent woman in the '50s trying to make it on her own.
2 Veep (2017, 2016, 2015) – 93%
Marking Julia Louis-Dreyfus' most successful return to the small screen, this political satire comedy series became the expected winner every year along with Louis-Dreyfus taking home the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy award.
She starred as Selina Meyer, the fictional vice president of the U.S., then later president, who had to constantly deal with political games through her entire campaign and then the presidency. Veep takes a humorous look at the dirty world of politics so it's no wonder the series has an A+ rating.
1 Fleabag (2019) – 100%
Interestingly, the most recent winner is also the highest-ranked: this British comedy-drama is universally lauded by critics. Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a free-spirited young woman who is sexually open but also angry and confused about life.
Dubbed a tragi-comedy, Waller-Bridge brings on the laughs in Fleabag as she often breaks the fourth wall to deliver lengthy internal monologues. The series only had two seasons, the first in 2016 and the final one in 2019, and there are just 12 episodes in total.
August 01, 2020 at 09:30PM
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