Critics' Choice Television Award / Best Comedy Series

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The Critics' Choice Television Award in the category Best Comedy Series (Original name: Best Comedy Series ) is one of the awards , held annually in the United States by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association , a federation awarded by television critics. It is aimed at excellent television series from the comedy genre . The category was launched in 2011. The winners will be determined in a secret vote by the association's television critics.

History and records

Since it was first awarded, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association has awarded a total of eight awards in the Best Comedy Series category to seven different series. The first winner was ABC's Modern Family , which was honored in 2011 . The last winner so far was the British series Fleabag , which was honored in 2020 . The number of nominations was ten series at the first award, and only six or seven for the subsequent ones.

The following is a list of records of the most frequent nominees and winners in the Best Comedy Series category . The winners and nominees in the other series or acting categories are not counted.

statistics series number Years
Most frequent awards Silicon Valley 2 2015, 2016 (Dec.)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 2 2018, 2019
Most frequent nomination
(* = victory)
The Big Bang Theory 5 2011, 2012, 2013 *, 2014, 2018
Most frequent nominations without a win Veep - The Vice President 4th 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Dec.)

Winners and nominees

The television series listed below are given with their German broadcast title (if they can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language series titles are identical. The winners are highlighted in bold type first.

2011

Modern family

30 skirt
Archer
The Big Bang Theory
Community
Glee
Louie
The Middle
The Office (The Office)
Parks and Recreation
2012

Community

The Big Bang Theory
Girls
Modern family
New girl
Parks and Recreation
2013

The Big Bang Theory

Louie
The Middle
New girl
Parks and Recreation
Veep - The Vice President (Veep)
2014

Orange is the New Black

The Big Bang Theory
Broad City
Louie
Silicon Valley
Veep - The Vice President (Veep)
2015

Silicon Valley

Broad City
Jane the Virgin
Mom
Transparent
Veep - The Vice President (Veep)
You're the worst
2016 (Jan.)

Master of None

Black-ish
Catastrophe
Jane the Virgin
The Last Man on Earth
Transparent
You're the worst
2016 (Dec.)

Silicon Valley

Atlanta
Black-ish
Fleabag
Modern family
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep - The Vice President (Veep)
2018

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Big Bang Theory
Black-ish
GLOW
Modern family
patriot
2019

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Atlanta
Barry
The good place
The Kominsky Method
The Middle
One day at a time
Schitt's Creek
2020

Fleabag

Barry
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Mom
One day at a time
PEN15
Schitt's Creek

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