John Larroquette’s son, Benjamin, is ultimately responsible for NBC’s updated theme song for “Night Court,” along with the rest of the show’s music. Larroquette told Seth Meyers during a “Late Night” appearance in mid-January about how he nailed down the job.
“My youngest son was born during the heyday of Night Court in 1987,” Larroquette said. “Benjamin is an excellent musician, graduate of the Berkeley College of Music…Ben called me one day and said, ‘Listen. Listen to what I did, I just did it.’ He did it from memory…and just recorded it himself.” The theme was an altered and more electronic-sounding version of the funky original from Reinhold Weege’s “Night Court,” which aired from 1984 to 1992. Larroquette had showrunners Melissa Rauch and Dan Rubin listen to it and let them decide for themselves.
“I thought, ‘That’s a nice new take on that,'” the actor remembered. “So I showed it to Melissa [Rauch] and Dan Rubin…And they went, ‘Oh my God, this is fantastic. It’s perfect.’ And so, [Benjamin] wound up being the composer and he does all the interstitial music within the [show]. So he’s the composer of the new ‘Night Court.'” Rauch, who previously starred in “The Big Bang Theory,” told TV Insider that she and Rubin couldn’t believe what they were hearing. “Our minds were blown,” she said. “It was just so, so exciting to think that if we make this show, this is what we could use.” And that’s exactly what they did.
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