Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series: Nominees



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Larry David

Lawrence Gene "Larry" David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and film director. David is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989-1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000...

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x Year:: 1991

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Jerry Seinfeld

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Jeff Garlin,; Gavin Polone,; Alec Berg

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series

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Mark Wahlberg

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Anthony Anderson,; Alec Baldwin,; Leonardo DiCaprio,; more ▼

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Levinson,; Doug Ellin,; Rob Weiss

Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards....

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series

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Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. Michaels was born...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

x Award Nominee:: Seth Meyers,; Andrew Steele,; Paula Pell,; more ▼

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; David Miner

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Steve Higgins,; Ken Aymong,; Michael Shoemaker

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (pronounced /dʒəˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, film-maker and broadcaster. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Merchant

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Merchant,; Jon Plowman,; Charlie Hanson

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Stephen Merchant

Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is a British Comedy Award-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-award winning English writer, director, radio presenter, and comic actor. He may be best known as the co-writer of the popular British sitcoms...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

x Award Nominee:: Ricky Gervais

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ricky Gervais,; Jon Plowman,; Charlie Hanson

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais

Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin (born June 5, 1962) is an American comic actor best known for his role as Jeff Greene, Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Garlin was born in Chicago and raised there and in South Florida. He graduated from Nova...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Larry David,; Gavin Polone,; Alec Berg

Steve Carell

Steven John "Steve" Carell (born August 16, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. Carell rose to fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 to 2004, and as Michael Scott on The Office since 2005. He...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

x Year:: 2009

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series

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Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. Daniels began his career as a writer on the HBO satirical news show Not Necessarily the News before moving to Saturday Night Live. There he spent three seasons at SNL,...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; Stephen Merchant

Doug Ellin

Doug Ellin (born April 6, 1968) is the creator of the HBO television series Entourage. Ellin also serves as executive producer and head writer for the series. He attended Tulane University. Ellin was born in Merrick, New York. Before producing and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Mark Wahlberg,; Stephen Levinson,; Rob Weiss

B. J. Novak

Benjamin Joseph Manaly “B. J.” Novak (born July 31, 1979) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and director. As an actor, he has appeared in films, including Knocked Up and Inglourious Basterds, and plays Ryan Howard on the NBC...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Michael Schur

Michael Herbert Schur (born October 29, 1975) is a television producer and writer. He wrote for six seasons on NBC's Saturday Night Live until 2004. Soon after, he became producer and writer for The Office on NBC, for which he has written ten...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Paul Lieberstein

Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born February 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter and television producer. An Emmy Award winner, he is most widely known as a writer, producer, and supporting cast member on the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office....

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Gene Stupnitsky

Gene Stupnitsky (born August 26, 1977) is a film and television writer. He usually works with Lee Eisenberg. So far in television, he has written for The Office on NBC, for which he (with Eisenberg) is credited as well as writing on Curb Your...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lee Eisenberg

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Lee Eisenberg

Lee Eisenberg is a film and television writer. He usually works with Gene Stupnitsky. He has written for television programs The Office on NBC, for which he (with Stupnitsky) is credited. He has written for an independent short film entitled Flush...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Gene Stupnitsky

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Jennifer Celotta

Jennifer Ann Celotta (b. November 11, 1971 in Gaithersburg, Maryland) is a United States television producer and writer. Among her credits are Home Improvement, Malcolm in the Middle, Greg the Bunny, Andy Richter Controls The Universe and The Office...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

David Mandel

David Mandel (born 1971) is an executive producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and one of the producers of the teen-comedy Eurotrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons. He is also one of the creators of Clerks:...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Larry David,; Jeff Garlin,; Gavin Polone,; more ▼

Rob Weiss

Rob Weiss is an American film and television screenwriter. His break came in 1993 when he wrote and directed the 1993 film Amongst Friends. The film was well received at film festivals and scored Weiss a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Mark Wahlberg,; Stephen Levinson,; Doug Ellin

Chuck Lorre

Chuck Lorre (born Charles Michael Levine on October 18, 1952) is a writer, director, producer and composer who has worked on many American sitcoms, including Grace Under Fire, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and the Canadian...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lee Aronsohn,; Eric Tannenbaum,; Kim Tannenbaum

Lee Aronsohn

Lee Aronsohn (born December 15, 1952) is a television writer and producer. He has written for some very successful sitcoms, such as The Love Boat, Who's the Boss?, Murphy Brown, Grace Under Fire, The Big Bang Theory, and Cybill. In 2003, he co...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Chuck Lorre,; Eric Tannenbaum,; Kim Tannenbaum

Alec Berg

Alec Berg is a comedy writer, best known as a writer for the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the 2003 film version of The Cat in the Hat and the teen comedy EuroTrip in 2004. In addition, Berg directed numerous episodes of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Larry David,; Jeff Garlin,; Gavin Polone

Mindy Kaling

Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Gavin Polone

Gavin Polone is a film and television show producer.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Larry David,; Jeff Garlin,; Alec Berg

Jeff Schaffer

Jeff Schaffer is a television show writer and producer.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Larry David,; Jeff Garlin,; Gavin Polone,; more ▼

Jeff Richmond

Jeffrey "Jeff" W. Richmond (born January 7, 1960) is an Emmy-nominated American composer, actor and television producer. Richmond currently produces and composes the music for 30 Rock, a sitcom created by and starring his wife Tina Fey. The show is...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

John Riggi

John Riggi is an American television writer, producer, director, and actor who has worked on various television shows. He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award award for Best...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

Robert Carlock

Robert Carlock is an American television producer and screenwriter who has worked on many successful television shows. He attended Harvard University where he was an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. He works as a writer and show runner, with series...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

x Award Nominee:: Seth Meyers,; Andrew Steele,; Paula Pell,; more ▼

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

Jack Burditt

Jack Burditt is an American producer and screenwriter who has worked on many television shows. He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award award for Best Dramatic Series at the...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

Don Scardino

Don Scardino (born 17 February 1948) is an American television director and producer and a former actor. Born in New York City, Scardino began his career as an actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

Marci Klein

Marci Klein is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American television producer who is best known for her work on 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live. During his 2007 Golden Globes acceptance speech, Alec Baldwin personally thanked Klein and referred to her...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; David Miner

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Steve Higgins,; Ken Aymong,; more ▼

David Miner

David Miner is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television producer who is best known for his work as an executive producer on NBC's 30 Rock and MTV's Human Giant. Miner is the manager of Tina Fey, 30 Rock's star and creator.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein

Jerry Kupfer

Jerry Kupfer is an American television producer who has worked on shows such as 30 Rock and Strangers with Candy.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Lorne Michaels,; Tina Fey,; Marci Klein,; more ▼

Ben Silverman

Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He is also an Emmy-winning executive producer of such shows as The Office, Ugly Betty, The Tudors, and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ricky Gervais,; Stephen Merchant

Stephen Levinson

Stephen Levinson is a television show writer and producer.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Mark Wahlberg,; Doug Ellin,; Rob Weiss

Susan Beavers

Susan Beavers is a television show writer and producer.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Chuck Lorre,; Lee Aronsohn,; Eric Tannenbaum,; more ▼

Howard Klein

Howard Klein is an American television producer. He is best known for being executive producer of the award-winning HBO television series Carnivàle.

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Greg Daniels,; Ben Silverman,; Ricky Gervais,; more ▼

Mark Burg

Mark Burg is an American film producer and actor, perhaps best known for his work on the SAW series of films and on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. Mark was President of Island Pictures in the early '90s and produced many films such as Basketball...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Chuck Lorre,; Lee Aronsohn,; Eric Tannenbaum,; more ▼

Oren Koules

Oren Koules (born January 31, 1961) is an American entertainment industry and professional sports industry executive. He is president of Evolution Entertainment, producer of the "Saw" movie franchise. He was also the owner of the Helena Bighorns ice...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Chuck Lorre,; Lee Aronsohn,; Eric Tannenbaum,; more ▼

Eddie Gorodetsky

Eddie Gorodetsky is a television writer and producer. His credits include Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Saturday Night Live, SCTV Network 90, and Late Night with David Letterman. He has been nominated for six Emmy...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Chuck Lorre,; Lee Aronsohn,; Eric Tannenbaum,; more ▼

Brian Burns

Brian Burns is an American film and television writer, producer and director. Brian was born and raised in Long Island, New York (he was raised in the Gibson area of Valley Stream, New York and graduated from Hewlett High School). He is the brother...

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