A recurring joke in the NBC sitcom Night Court may have actually given a once-famous singer a late-career resurgence.
In Night Court’s pilot episode, protagonist Judge Harry Stone (played by Harry Anderson) was revealed to be a huge fan of the jazz singer Mel Tormé, perhaps most well-known for composing the tune to “The Christmas Song,” sometimes known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.” This one-time reference in the pilot eventually became a recurring gag in the show and may even have
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