Luke Ski

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Name = The great Luke Ski

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The great Luke Ski is the stage name of Luke Sienkowski, a parody, filk and rap musician who writes, records and performs comedy music. (The decapitalization of the word "great" in Sienkowski's stage name is his own preferred spelling, and the title has appeared as such on all of his albums to date.) He had the #1 most requested song on the Dr. Demento radio show in both the year 2002 and the year 2003.citation

Topics of his parodies have included "The Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars", "Spider-Man", Keanu Reeves and Hamlet. He has, in one song, parodied "all" the Star Trek television shows. His parody songs are reminiscent of the pop music works of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Filking has been around since the 1950s. Luke helped bring parodies of rap and hip-hop to Science Fiction conventions. He does not play an instrument, and sings to pre-recorded music, often in costume or with props. Much of his work satirizes science fiction movies, television, and their marketing and are often from a fan perspective. Many of his longer works are snippets of song parodies collected together into an extended medley, such as "Grease Wars" or "It's A Fanboy Christmas".

Since 1996, Luke has released numerous albums. He is a frequent performer at science fiction and gaming conventions. Luke is also a caricature artist, and has done the cover art for several of his own albums (with the notable exception of "UnCONVENTIONal", which features the artwork of John Kovalic).

Luke Ski also hosts the weekly show "Dementia Revolution" on Dementia Radio, and has guest and co-hosted "Manic Mondays"--a weekly podcast created by comedy rap artist Tom Rockwell (aka Devo Spice of Sudden Death).

Luke portrayed P.T. Barnum on three episodes of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd [cite web
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Luke appeared as several characters in the Shockwave Radio Theater production "Let's Play Doctor" at the 2004 Marscon.

He wrote and performed the theme song for the independent parody fanfilm [http://www.theonedork.net The Dork of the Rings] .

Luke achieved Dr. Demento's #1 "Funny 25" spot for two consecutive years (2002 [cite web | last = Morris | first = Jeff | title = The Dr. Demento Show #02-52 - December 29, 2002 | url=http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd02.1229.html | accessdate = 2007-08-08 ] , 2003 [cite web | last = Morris | first = Jeff | title = The Dr. Demento Show #03-52 - December 28, 2003 | url=http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd03.1228.html | accessdate = 2007-08-08 ] ) with different songs.

Discography

* "Fanboys 'n Da Hood" (1996)
* "Shadows of the Bunghole" (1997)
* "Carpe Dementia" (1999)
* "Forgotten Fishheads Vol. 13" (2000) - rarities
* "Forgotten Fishheads Vol. 27" (2000) - rarities
* "Uber Geek" (2002)
* "Worst Album Ever" (2003) (Came with a free vomit bag)
* "Psycho Potpourri" (2004) - compilation
* "Forgotten Fishheads Vol. 42" (2004) - rarities
* "Forgotten Fishheads Vol. 69" (2004) - rarities
* "Forgotten Fishheads Double Feature" (2004) - rarities
* "Are We Stalling For Time?" (2004) - live
* "Forgotten Fishheads Vol. Zero" (2004) - rarities
* "May The Farce Be With You" (2005) - compilation
* "UnCONVENTIONal" (2005)
* "Trek-Wutchyalike" (2006) - compilation
* "The MarsCon 2007 Dementia Track Fund Raiser CD" (2007) - produced and contributed to compilation
* "Baconspiracy" (2007)

He has songs in several compilations, including Technobabble, Laughter Is A Powerful Weapon Vol. 2, Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes, Volume 15 and Earpicac.

Video Compilations

* "The Ego Has Landed" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.thegreatlukeski.com The great Luke Ski]
* [http://www.drdemento.com/ Dr. Demento]
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* [http://suddendeath.org/manicmondays.php3 Manic Mondays]

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