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- Luke Collis Sienkowski (born January 14, 1974), better known as the great Luke Ski or simply as Luke Ski, is an American parody, filk, and rap artist, who writes, records and performs comedy music. The decapitalization of "the 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. The name was partially inspired by the Muppets character Gonzo, who often proclaimed himself "The Great Gonzo". Sienkowski had the most requested song on the Dr. Demento radio show in 2002, 2003, 2011, and 2014 with his songs "Peter Parker" featuring Sudden Death, "Stealing Like a Hobbit", "Snoopy the Dogg", and "Fake Adult" respectively. Topics of his parodies have included The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Spider-Man, Keanu Reeves and Hamlet. Sienkowski is best known for bringing parodies of rap and hip-hop to Science Fiction conventions. He 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, Sienkowski has released numerous albums. He is a frequent performer at science fiction and gaming conventions. He 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). Outside of comedy music, Sienkowski hosted the weekly show Dementia Revolution on Dementia Radio, and currently co-hosts a bi-monthly podcast with musician Carrie Dahlby called Luke and Carrie's Bad Rapport, in which the two discuss a variety of topics and regularly feature comedy music. Sienkowski also worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and voice actor of various characters on the Cartoon Network series Mighty Magiswords from 2015 to 2018, and co-hosts the animation podcast Kyle & Luke Talk About Toons with Magiswords creator Kyle A. Carrozza. He portrayed P.T. Barnum on three episodes of the narrative podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. He appeared as several characters in the Shockwave Radio Theater production "Let's Play Doctor" at the 2004 MarsCon. (en)
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- Luke Collis Sienkowski (born January 14, 1974), better known as the great Luke Ski or simply as Luke Ski, is an American parody, filk, and rap artist, who writes, records and performs comedy music. The decapitalization of "the 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. The name was partially inspired by the Muppets character Gonzo, who often proclaimed himself "The Great Gonzo". (en)
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