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Although not a romantic comedy (well, I guess, it is sort of...) Elmer Bernstein's score for AIRPLANE! contains many musical gags. Bernstein, in other comic scores, tends to play it a bit more straight.
De Vol's comedy scores, if I am not mistaken, usually help tweak the comedy in many ways with funny asides and "mickey mousing". I love his score for GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM (directed by the great David Swift) -- which as I recall is both lovely and funny.
Henry Mancini is also a master of comedic scoring -- I watched "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" again the other night and was amazed at how good his score is at creating a deeply affective sentimental mood and some awfully funny moments.
Walter Scarf, in his scores for Jerry Lewis, also is a comedic genius, IMHO.
John Williams also assayed this genre in his music for JOHN GOLDFARB PLEASE COME HOME. The terrific march in 1941 also serves some comedic purpose.
Ernest Gold also proved a master at this in IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD. I am sure others will come up with many more!
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Also David Grusin's DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE integrates musical gags brilliantly.
Are there examples of this in Ennio Morricone's scores for comedies? I am thinking of his quirkly and funny score for MY NAME IS NOBODY as perhaps in this type of scoring.
Neal Hefti surely brought a great deal of comedy to his scores, too!
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