Music in comedy television : notes on laughs / edited by Liz Giuffre, Philip Hayward.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: music in comedy television / Liz Giuffre
- Sesame Street as a musical comedy-variety show / Kathryn A. Ostrofsky
- And now for something completely different (sounding): Monty Python's musical circus / Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo
- That junky funky folk vibe: Quincy Jones's title theme for Sanford and son / Amedeo D'Adamo
- Once in a lifetime: music, parody and comical incongruity in the Young ones / Phillip Hayward and Matt Hill
- The mockumentary sitcom: the discomfort of fake realism / Carlo Nardi
- "Must hear TV": scrubs and the pop soundtrack / Alexander Koch
- 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
- "I told you I was freaky": gender, genre and parody in the songs of Flight of the conchords / Kirsten Zemke
- The Lonely island's "SNL digital short" as music video parody: building on Saturday night live's legacy / Penny Spirou
- Sketching out Portlandia's musical layers / Emma Driver and Sarah Attfield
- Inverting expectations: Mozart in the jungle and humor with classical musicians / Stan Beeler
- Pure and simple: music as a personal and comedic resource in Car share / Brett Mills and Mark Rimmer.
