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Awarded for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series Presented by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Currently held by The Colbert Report (2014) | ||
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series was a category in the Primetime Emmy Awards. It was awarded annually to the best variety show or similarly formatted program of the year. The award was sometimes known by other names, such as “Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program” and “Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series”.
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From 1979 to 1988, all of the award winners were for single programs, although series had been nominated for the award in some of those years. Since 1994, all of the winners in this category have been late-night talk shows.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won the award for ten years consecutively (2003–2012), the longest winning streak for a television show in Primetime Emmy Award history. In 2015, this category was separated into two categories – Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Variety Talk Series.