Music in Comedy Television

Introduction: Music in Comedy Television (Liz Giuffre) 1. Sesame Street as a Musical Comedy-Variety Show (Kathryn A. Ostrofsky) 2. And Now for Something Completely Different (Sounding): Monty Python's Musical Circus (Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo) 3. That Junky Funky Folk Vibe: Quincy Jones's Title Theme for Sanford and Son (Amedeo D'Adamo) 4. Once in a Lifetime: Music, Parody, and Comical Incongruity in The Young Ones (Phillip Hayward and Matt Hill) 5. The Mockumentary Sitcom: The Discomfort of Fake Realism (Carlo Nardi) 6. "Must Hear TV": Scrubs and the Pop Soundtrack (Alexander Koch) 7. Music in Comedy Television from the Composer's Perspective: Getting "the Answers You're Not Looking for" in an Interview with David Schwartz (Liz Giuffre) 8. "I Told You I Was Freaky": Gender, Genre, and Parody in the Songs of Flight of the Conchords (Kirsten Zemke) 9. The Lonely Island's "SNL Digital Short" as Music Video Parody: Building on Saturday Night Live's Legacy (Penny Spirou) 10. Sketching Out Portlandia's Musical Layers (Emma Driver and Sarah Attfield) 11. Inverting Expectations: Mozart in the Jungle and Humor with Classical Musicians (Stan Beeler) 12. Pure and Simple: Music as a Personal and Comedic Resource in Car Share (Brett Mills and Mark Rimmer) Afterword (Toby Miller)