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File No. 824827 · Adjudicated
Kenny Hotz
Comedian — Kenny vs. Spenny, Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will
Born
1967
Birthplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Kenny vs. Spenny debuted on CBC before moving to Showcase and eventually Comedy Central for U.S. audiences.
The verdict
Born and raised in Toronto, and one half of the deeply strange, deeply Canadian reality-competition show Kenny vs. Spenny, which found an actual American cult audience on Comedy Central. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Comedian · Ontario
References — en.wikipedia.org