Richard Gibbs is a composer who was musical director and composed the theme song music for Muppets Tonight. He went on to score the Creature Shop-effects film Dr. Dolittle.
After a stint in the band Oingo Boingo (with Danny Elfman) and work as a session musician, Gibbs entered film and TV as a composer and/or conductor. He scored the first season of The Simpsons, Ladybugs (with Rodney Dangerfield), Clifford (with Charles Grodin and Martin Short), Once Upon a Crime (with John Candy), That Darn Cat (with Doug E. Doug), and the 2003 revival of Battlestar Galactica.