Ookla the Mok

Ookla the Mok is a filk band fronted by Rand Bellavia and Adam English. The two met as undergraduates while attending Houghton College in 1988, and the majority of their performances have been at science-fiction conventions or in their hometown of Buffalo, New York. The band is named after a character from the Ruby-Spears Productions cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, created by Steve Gerber. They provided the theme song to Disney's Fillmore!, and scored the feature film, Bite Me, Fanboy! They have won four Pegasus Awards for excellence in filk music, and the 2014 Logan Award for Outstanding Original Comedy Song. Ookla the Mok had the most requested song on Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show in both 2012 and 2013. Two of their songs have appeared on Dr. Demento CD compilations. On Dr. Demento's final episode, Ookla the Mok was listed as the 32nd most requested artist of all time, and "Mwahaha" was the 63rd most requested song On April 20, 2024, Rand Bellavia and Adam English were inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ookla_t...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)