Jan 16 2009
Actors Review: Kenny Hotz
“A really clever comedian from Canada” are the words that can describe Kenneth Joel Hotz, a.k.a. Kenny Hotz. You probably heard or seen Kenny in his “reality mockumentary” Kenny vs. Spenny which filmed alongside Spencer Nolan Rice (Spenny Rice) one of his best friends and fellow documentarian/comedian. The premise of Kenny Vs. Spenny was two friends competing in some strange competitions to see how is better than the other. The show was kind of silly but it was extremely appealing, even myself I used to watch the show from time to time.
The thematic of the show could be seen that was everything except “real” or “reality” because of the strange nature of the situations, but we could saw about Kenny’s kind of humor toward reality and that was cool because it was refreshing for its time, now with his new show Testees, we can see another facet of Mr. Hotz humor (a humor based on surrealism and the redneck living). Testees is not as appealing as KvS was, in my own humble opinion the characters aren’t that likeable as Kenny or Spenny, even you can see some similarities of Ron and Peter of KvS, Peter being the winner and Ron being the lovable looser.
But beside these shows, Kenny is a talented documentarian who has achieved certain degree of success by showing the absurdist facts of reality, like Pitch and he is an award winning photographer as he served as photojournalist for the Gulf War in 1991.
As a conclusion we hope to see Mr. Hotz in more future projects.
