Kenny Versus Spenny: Behind The Scenes And Below The Belt

Spenny

When Kenny and I aren’t working on Kenny vs. Spenny, we go our separate ways. The show obviously puts a strain on our friendship, but we also have other interests. I've developed a pilot show for Family Channel and written six scripts, so I'm busy with other things.

Victoria Principal played a big role in setting me on the path I’m on today… actually it was her breasts more than anything. I’m a big fan of Dallas and always have been. It just happened that my mother was dating an actor who was a semi-regular on Dallas, so I got to go to the set. It had a profound effect on my vocation.

I started out as a blues musician. Ultimately I felt the music wasn’t authentic to who I was, and writing and creating comedy was much more so. I stopped playing the blues for money and got into show business, starting out as a production assistant on the children’s show Dudley the Dragon. Later Kenny and I wrote a script together for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

My first impression of Kenny? Kenny’s funny and fun to be around. Our fathers were friends, we went to the same school, and we were very close for a long, long time – closer than we are now, but of course we’re grown men now.

Kenny's become a bit of a monster to me. I don’t know if it’s the celebrity thing, but Kenny’s very into being famous and being a star. He’s completely willing to trash my mother on the show and make up absurd lies about me.

It’s actually good that the lies are so outrageous, since everybody knows it's not true that I’m a hermaphrodite, that I’m the back alley rapist or that I hate Jesus.