Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Music in Comedy Television -- 1 Sesame Street as a Musical Comedy-Variety Show -- 2 And Now for Something Completely Different (Sounding): Monty Python's Musical Circus -- 3 That Junky Funky Folk Vibe: Quincy Jones's Title Theme for Sanford and Son -- 4 Once in a Lifetime: Music, Parody, and Comical Incongruity in The Young Ones -- 5 The Mockumentary Sitcom: The Discomfort of Fake Realism -- 6 "Must Hear TV": Scrubs and the Pop Soundtrack -- 7 Music in Comedy Television from the Composer's Perspective: Getting "the Answers You're Not Looking for" in an Interview with David Schwartz -- 8 "I Told You I Was Freaky": Gender, Genre, and Parody in the Songs of Flight of the Conchords -- 9 The Lonely Island's "SNL Digital Short" as Music Video Parody: Building on Saturday Night Live's Legacy -- 10 Sketching Out Portlandia's Musical Layers -- 11 Inverting Expectations: Mozart in the Jungle and Humor with Classical Musicians -- 12 Pure and Simple: Music as a Personal and Comedic Resource in Car Share -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index