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. The award has sometimes been known by other names, such as Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program.
From 1979 to 1988, all of the award winners were single programs, although series were nominated for the award in some of those years. 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.
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