Kenny Hotz

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Kenneth Joel Hotz (born May 3, 1967) is a Canadian designer, radio presenter, and entertainer.

Hotz is a former South Park staff writer, "Kenny" of Comedy Central television show Kenny vs. Spenny, the FX series Testees, and Kenny Hotz' Triumph of the Will.

He has received numerous international accolades for his film, television, and digital media.

Hotz is an award-winning Vice Presenter.

He began his career as a photographer and Gulf War photojournalist.

Early life and education

Hotz was born to a Jewish family and graduated from the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Hotz graduated from Ryerson University's Media Arts program in 1992. Spencer Rice was a student at Hotz' high school, and the pair went on to direct films together and create Kenny vs. Spence.

Personal life

Hotz describes himself as an atheist. He can speak Hebrew.

Hotz is Joni Mitchell's godson.

Hotz married former model Audrey Gair in 2007; the couple have three children.

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Career

Hotz began as a documentary filmmaker and news photographer, delivering photo essays on topics ranging from Auschwitz, Dachau, and the Gulf War. Hotz was the first registered Canadian photojournalist to cover the Gulf War. Several of Needle Park's additional photo essays include: After Nicolae Ceauşescu and New Year's Eve 2000 in Times Square, Stephen Koresh, Mount Carmel, Romanian orphanages. Both national and provincial archives have acquired his work for their collections.

Hotz and Spencer Rice produced the 18-minute short film It Don't Cost Nothin' to Say Good Morning.

Hotz produced and starred (with Rice) in the 1996 film Pitch, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997. Several cameos, including Al Pacino, Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Neil Simon appeared in the film.

He co-wrote an episode of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation with Rice, 1997, titled Truce or Consequences.

Hotz and his long-time writing partner Rice moved to Los Angeles, where they collaborated on the production of Kenny vs. Spenny.

Hotz appeared in his second feature film titled The Papal Chase, a documentary about Hotz's attempt to visit Pope John Paul II, which was released in 2004. At the 2004 Whistler Film Festival, the film received the People's Choice Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, as well as the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.

Kenny vs. Spenny first appeared on CBC Television in 2003 and went on to be nominated for eight Gemini awards. The original pilot had been hired by USA Network, but the show never aired before it was picked up by the CBC for 26 episodes. As they competed against each other in tournaments, Hotz and friend Spencer Rice came to a "humiliation" in the series. Hotz's behaviour in the episode Who Can Piss Off More People, where he paid to have a plane fly over Toronto carrying a banner that reads "Jesus Sucks." Despite the fact that he said his friend Jesus was getting married and that it was not geared toward a particular faith. Since the nationally funded CBC censored two episodes of Kenny vs. Spenny, refusing to air them on their website, the show went from CBC to Showcase TV in Canada.

Hotz developed the idea for Versusville, which was also nominated for a Canadian New Media Award for Excellence in Gaming in 2004.

Kenny vs. Spenny, the number eight pick in Maclean's list of the top ten Canadian television shows of the last decade, was ranked number eight in 2009. "Many episodes feature the evil Kenny destroying his supposed friend by deception, trickery, and blatant cheating," the magazine said. Elton vs. Simon, a German spinoff series that aired between 2004 and 2006, was produced by Hotz. With remakes including Cenk vs. Roman in Turkey, Juan vs. Roman in Colombia, Katja vs. Bridget in the Netherlands, and Ed vs. Spencer in the United Kingdom, Kenny vs. Spencer was shown in over 25 countries and licensed globally, as well as Ed vs. Spencer in the United Kingdom. The show's greatest selling comedy format in Canadian television history was created as a result of this. The show was ranked #8 on the top ten Canadian television shows of the 21st century. The show was rated as the highest rated reality television show by IMDb in July 2013.

In 2010, the Kenny vs. Spenny Christmas Special" was the last episode. Over six seasons, the series aired 89 original episodes. Each of the show's main characters will have their own shows the following year.

Following Hotz's announcement that Kenny and Spenny were planning the live comedy tour Kenny vs. Canada, a fan movement to bring the show back to Netflix began in 2014. Hotz and Rice created a traveling stage show based on the show with a world tour of about 100 dates this year. The Kenny national Kenny vs. Spenny tour was included on this tour.

Kenny & Spenny: Paldemic, a CBC Gem special that centered on the pair's friendships and careers since Kenny vs. Spenny ended in 2010 and was produced by Spencer Rice, Hotz. Spenny.

Hotz spent time on South Park as a strategist and writer, supplying information for shows such as "Follow That Egg!" "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" is the movie "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" is a film by Robert Leo. Hotz was a freelance writer and occasionally staff writer for 42 different episodes of the show from 2004 to 2012, and he returned in 2012 to write for the episode "Cartman Finds Love." In the fall of 2007, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the show's creators, joined Kenny and Spenny to help produce future episodes of the show Kenny vs. Spencenny, which became executive producers. As they watched the episode "Who Can Stay Awake the Longest" – they explained that they first came across the program while remaining up late finishing their film Team America: World Police. The show's first season appears. He and the rest of the South Park writing staff were named as the country's highest-performing writing team ever.

Hotz invented the sitcom Testees for FX Networks in 2008, a show centered on two roommates who work as guinea pigs for a poor product testing center. On FX, the show aired 13 episodes and debuted in October 2008. Fielding Mellish from Woody Allen's film Bananas inspired the series, according to Hotz. The show received rave reviews. Tom Shales referred to the program as "wall-to-wall uproarious" in a Washington Post article.

Hotz starred and produced a new series entitled Triumph of the Will, which premiered on Canada's Action network on July 22, 2011. Hotz was in six episodes as he attempted to complete major tasks that challenged both his audience and himself, including the establishment of a Jewish funded mosque for Muslims and finding his widowed mother a new boyfriend. The show was shot on location in several countries, including Canada, the United States, and France.

Hotz is a vice president, host, and columnist for Vice, and he received the magazine's best fiction article of the year award in 2006. He produced and appeared on Me on You, the Vice talk show in 2015. Getting an Election Executive by Spike Jonze, a TV special starring Hotz in 2016. It was nominated for the Academy of Canadian Television and Cinema Award for the Best Original Series Developed for Digital Media (non-Fiction). BuzzFeed called the film the "most honest and objective piece of journalism this whole election," focusing on the 2016 US presidential election and interviews with residents on the streets of the United States. Hotz has served as both a spokesperson and on-stage presence at the Vice Media project and network launches.

Hotz signed a new multi-week radio show with Sirius Radio in the United States in 2013. He appeared in the film The Chickening, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. He also served as the film's producer. Hotz co-directed a music video for Deadmau5's track "Monophobia" in 2018. The video was later chosen for the Prism Prize.

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