Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Prior to 1989, the category was not gender specific, thus was called Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series. These awards, like the other "Guest" awards, were previously not presented at the Primetime Emmy Award ceremony, but rather at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony.
Winners and nominations
1970s
1980s
Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series| Year | Actor/Actress | Program | Role | Episode | Network |
| 1986 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1986 | Roscoe Lee Browne | The Cosby Show | Dr. Barnabus Foster | "The Card Game" | NBC |
| 1986 | Earle Hyman | The Cosby Show | Russell Huxtable | "Happy Anniversary" | NBC |
| 1986 | Danny Kaye | The Cosby Show | Dr. Burns | "The Dentist" | NBC |
| 1986 | Clarice Taylor | The Cosby Show | Anna Huxtable | "Happy Anniversary" | NBC |
| 1986 | Stevie Wonder | The Cosby Show | Himself | "A Touch of Wonder" | NBC |
| 1987 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1987 | John Cleese | Cheers | Dr. Simon Finch-Royce | "Simon Says" | NBC |
| 1987 | Art Carney | The Cavanaughs | James "Weasel" Cavanaugh | "He Ain't Heavy, Father..." | CBS |
| 1987 | Herb Edelman | The Golden Girls | Stanley Zbornak | "The Stan Who Came to Dinner" | NBC |
| 1987 | Lois Nettleton | The Golden Girls | Jean | "Isn't It Romantic?" | NBC |
| 1987 | Nancy Walker | The Golden Girls | Angela | "Long Day's Journey into Marinara" | NBC |
| 1988 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1988 | Beah Richards | Frank's Place | Mrs. Varden | "The Bridge" | CBS |
| 1988 | Herb Edelman | The Golden Girls | Stanley Zbornak | "The Audit" | NBC |
| 1988 | Geraldine Fitzgerald | The Golden Girls | Anna | "Mother's Day" | NBC |
| 1988 | Eileen Heckart | The Cosby Show | Mrs. Hickson | "Autumn Gifts" | NBC |
| 1988 | Gilda Radner | It's Garry Shandling's Show | Herself | "Mr. Smith Goes to Nam" | Showtime |
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
| Year | Actress | Program | Role | Network |
| 1989 | - | - | - | - |
| 1989 | Colleen Dewhurst | Murphy Brown | Avery Brown | CBS |
| 1989 | Eileen Brennan | Newhart | Corine Denby | CBS |
| 1989 | Diahann Carroll | A Different World | Marion Gilbert | NBC |
| 1989 | Doris Roberts | Perfect Strangers | Mrs. Bailey | ABC |
| 1989 | Maxine Stuart | The Wonder Years | Mrs. Carples | ABC |
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Individuals with multiple awards
;3 awards;2 awards
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Tina Fey
- Kathryn Joosten
- Jean Smart
- Tracey Ullman
- Betty White
Programs with multiple awards
- Saturday Night Live,
- Frasier
- Desperate Housewives
- Love & War
- Mad About You
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Murphy Brown
Individuals with multiple nominations
- Cloris Leachman
- Tina Fey
- Christine Baranski
- Melissa McCarthy
- Maya Rudolph
- Elaine Stritch
- Betty White
- Eileen Heckart
- Laurie Metcalf
- Elizabeth Banks
- Carol Burnett
- Georgia Engel
- Dot-Marie Jones
- Kathryn Joosten
- Jane Lynch
- Wanda Sykes
- Christina Applegate
- Angela Bassett
- Kathy Bates
- Joan Cusack
- Blythe Danner
- Eileen Brennan
- Kristin Chenoweth
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Carrie Fisher
- Cyndi Lauper
- Shelley Long
- Bette Midler
- Susan Sarandon
- Molly Shannon
- Jean Smart
- Emma Thompson
- Tracey Ullman
- Nancy Walker
- Kristen Wiig
Programs with multiple nominations
- Saturday Night Live
- 30 Rock
- Frasier
- Desperate Housewives
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Cheers
- The Cosby Show
- Glee
- The Golden Girls
- Will & Grace
- The Big Bang Theory
- Friends
- Murphy Brown
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Mad About You
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Ally McBeal
- Black-ish
- The Good Place
- The Larry Sanders Show
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Monk
- Orange Is the New Black
- A Different World
- Ellen
- Fleabag
- Girls
- Grace Under Fire
- Louie
- Love & War
- Shameless
- Two and a Half Men
- Ugly Betty