Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz (born May 3, 1967) is an international award winning Canadian producer and comedian. He is a former South Park staff writer, award-winning writer for Vice, creator/star of the Comedy Central television series Kenny vs. Spenny, creator and writer of the FX series Testees and Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will.
Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie. Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. Testees is now showing on FX in the UK, I.Sat in Brazil and Comedy Central in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. After one season, Testees was not renewed by FX.
Release Date2008-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Larry
Episode Count13
Vote Count24
Kenny and Spenny are two best friends who compete against each other. Their competitions are ridiculous, immature and totally intense.
Release Date2003-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Episode Count52
Vote Count57
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
Release Date2008-09-18
Charactersd Zack II
Vote Count2491
Coming off the widely successful Kenny vs. Spenny, Kenny Hotz wanted to move forward with creating a series that had more meaning for him. He came up with the idea to tackle newsworthy issues that would be both appealing and have meaning for audiences. Kenny vs. Spenny was a show about two friends trying to win a competition, says Hotz. There were some moralistic values in it so it did have some meaning but Kenny Hotzs Triumph Of The Will has real heart.
Release Date2011-07-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd
Episode Count6
Vote Count9
When a mayor running for re-election is caught on video smoking crack, he'll do whatever it takes to keep it out of the wrong hands.
Release Date2017-03-25
Charactersd Chief Benny Roth
Vote Count4
It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and Restaurant Resort, the world’s largest fast-food entertainment complex in North America. But things quickly get very, very clucked.
Release Date2015-09-10
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Charactersd Bathroom Creeper
Vote Count15
The boys compete to see who could stay within the branches of a Christmas tree the longest, intermingled with sketches and other surprises.
Release Date2010-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Kenny
Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.
Release Date1993-09-13
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Vote Count143
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled "The Dawn", concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto Fest, they approach Roger Ebert, Norman Jewison (at a packed press conference), Eric Stoltz (leaving a limo), Al Pacino, and others without much success. On a roll, they leave Toronto for Hollywood, getting advice from Arthur Hiller and Neil Simon and finding an agent who expresses interest in their pitch.
Release Date1997-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count20
Once again, this DVD is a compilation of every video I’ve ever done (outside of Vice) thread together with an elaborate film magic trick involving old, dad me fighting young, stoned me.
Release Date2010-01-10
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
The Papal Chase is a guerrilla documentary feature that captures one man's obsession to meet the Pope in order to win a $1000 bet. With appearances by The Rolling Stones and Pope John Paul II.
Release Date2004-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count5
In the midst of their 20th anniversary tour of Canada, Kenny & Spenny talk about each other, their show, and their relationships with each other.
Charactersd Self
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Release Date1997-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count4555
Everyone's favorite teenage mutants are back in live action to fight crime with help from a new ninja turtle -- a female named Venus De Milo.
Release Date1997-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count46
Two friends lifelong friends, Ed and Spencer, are pitted against each other in a series of weekly challenges that are ridiculous, funny and immature; but where winning means everything.
Release Date2004-11-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
It Don't Cost Nothin' to Say Good Morning 1994 is an award winning documentary film directed by Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice. The film is about the life of a homeless man, known only as "'Shorty' Gordy", who was a beloved but drunken, potty-mouthed panhandler, which was filmed over three years, covering Gordy's life and death. The movie premiered at Palm Springs Film Festival, Cinéfest, the Worldwide Short Film Festival and won best short at the Hot Docs Film Festival.
Release Date1994-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
As the world deals with the worst pandemic in a century, two grown men somehow manage to turn the global tragedy into a self-serving, egomaniacal hissy fit that ends up having little to do with reassuring their fans that everything will be okay. Kenny and Spenny are back, and surprisingly they might be just the right medicine for Canadians stuck at home. Kenny, the diabolical schemer, has bamboozled a half-hour special episode out of the CBC, where he once again plans to throw Spenny under the ‘ambulance’ to make it great. Some things never change.
Release Date2020-11-21
Vote Count3
