Kevin “KFC” Clancy has a vision for the future of the Barstool Sports office in New York City.
With Penn Entertainment recently completing its acquisition of remaining ownership stake in the digital media giant, Clancy pondered the future on KFC Radio on Tuesday. He said Barstool’s presence in the comedy scene is growing, and he’s ready to take things to the next level.
“If Barstool is serious about it and we go about it the right way, I do not see how Barstool fails in the world of comedy,” Clancy said. “We have made so many inroads at KFC Radio in the comedy world that almost every comic respects us and likes us and wants to work with us. And now if we formalize that and Barstool New York becomes hopefully a hub for stand-up comics and TikTok stars and scriptwriters and internet video creators and whatever genre of entertainment you’re in, it’s like we were able to do that the first go-round.”
Clancy added that if Barstool puts all the knowledge they have about networking and connecting with the best of internet comedy then they’ll do well. He said with the Penn backing and the already established resources and connections, combined with strong social media platforms, there’s no reason they can’t successfully seek out talent to work with.
“I can go to every up-and-coming comic or up-and-coming personality and be like, you want to get involved with us? Here is what you get immediately,” he said. “You get exposure like this, you get distribution like this. We can help you with production, we can help you with creativity. We give you the production space. The literal and figurative support that you need.”
“Now we’re in a place that we’ve figured out the game and we know how to do it,” KFC added. “So let’s go do it with the funniest people on planet earth.”
But Clancy did say the road was paved with plenty of breaks and good fortunes along the way, so he’s trying not to get too far ahead of himself at this point.
“We would still need a lot of that shit to fall in to place to ever really replicate that success again,” he said. “But we’ve positioned ourselves so well to go do that I don’t see how it doesn’t work out.”
