Francis Foster (comedian)
British-Venezuelan comedian and podcaster
Francis Foster, born 1 May 1982, is a British comedian and podcast presenter, best known for co-hosting the online show Triggernometry with Konstantin Kisin.
Quotes
edit- As a Venezuelan, I really do appreciate it when a Colombia graduate explains to me that socialism is a beautiful thing. It's wonderful. But, you know I'm being glib about it, but there's a very serious point to be made there in that... I say to these people when BLM rose to power, and people were championing it – particularly in our industry in comedy – I said the words to them 'You do not know the forces that you are messing with. You have no idea. You have never seen El Socialismo. I have. Believe me. It's not pretty.' But you can't explain that to people who have never seen it.
- "EMERGENCY EPISODE: Bari Weiss On Israel/Palestine" (at 46m39s), Triggernometry, 18 October 2023.
- Just fucking leave me alone. I got that more than ever with covid where it just felt that it was almost a reason for the government to stick their little finger into your life and also incentivize other people to do it as well.
- "'Stop Making Us Pretend' - Bill Maher" (at 16m45s), Triggernometry, 1 November 2023
- If the state funded broadcaster is not willing to entertain other points of view [...] then why should they be funded by the state? Because there are people in that state who have those opinions [and] if the mainstream broadcaster is not prepared to entertain those points of view, then is it really serving its public?
- "Inside the Bubble of Public Broadcasting - Josh Szeps" (at 12m29s), Triggernometry, 17 March 2024.