Voted one of the Top 10 Canadian TV shows of the decade by Macleans magazine in 2010.
Kenny Hotz has disliked reading comments of the show being fake. In the 2014 live tour, Hotz and Spencer Rice showed various footage clips including behind the scenes and rejected stunts.
Jamie Tiernay, Kenny's Unit Coordinator, was notably absent from season 2 of the show. When he was a guest on Kenny's Sirius XM radio show, he revealed that, during this time, he had moved to South Korea and obtained a fake English degree so he could teach at a university. After widespread crackdown, he and many others were arrested and sent to Immigration Jail, where he stayed for 2 weeks until he was allowed back to America. After this incident he returned to the show.
Originally aired on CBC Television but was pulled off and moved to another network, Showcase, and aired later during the day.
Kenny is missing the tip of his right index finger as the result of a bicycle accident when he was a kid. He has used this as an advantage to win a competition.