What’s a comedy these days? It’s a hot topic, including among the comedy contenders at last week’s A Night in the Writers Room: Awards Season Edition. This year’s panelists hailed from shows that range from “funny, but dark” and “dark, but funny” to “funny, but emotional” and “crime procedural, but funny,” and everything in between.

Perhaps the biggest headline on this front came from CBS’ “ Elsbeth ,” which had just announced hours earlier that it was moving out of drama awards contention to compete in the comedy field at most of the upcoming kudocasts, including the Golden Globes and Actor (formerly SAG) Awards. If you’re wondering why, you clearly haven’t watched “Elsbeth.” It may be a procedural centered on solving a few murders, but with star Carrie Preston’s eccentric ex-lawyer at

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