Music in Comedy Television

Liz Giuffre is Lecturer in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Philip Hayward holds adjunct professor positions at Southern Cross University and University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

• 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)

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