Kenny Hotz

Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is a Canadian comedy writer, producer, director, actor and comedian. Hotz is a South Park consultant and writer, creator/star of the Comedy Central television show Kenny vs. Spenny, creator and writer of the FX series Testees, and the creator/star of Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will. He has received numerous awards for his television work— from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television the Gemini Awards and the Canadian Comedy Awards—and is a multiple-time film festival award-winner. He is also an award-winning Vice contributor and Gulf war photo-journalist. 2Journalism Hotz was born to a Jewish family and graduated from the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Hotz began as a documentary filmmaker and news photographer, creating photo essays on subjects including Auschwitz, Dachau, and the Gulf War. Hotz was the only registered Canadian photo-journalist to cover the Gulf War. His additional photo essays also include Needle Park in Zurich, Switzerland, David Koresh, Mount Carmel, Romanian orphanages after Nicolae Ceauşescu and New Year's Eve 2000 in Times Square. Both national and provincial archives have purchased his work for their collection