Konstantin Kisin

Konstantin Kisin (born December 25, 1982) is a Soviet-born British comedian, author and podcast host, best known as co-host of Triggernometry with fellow stand-up Francis Foster.

He was born in Moscow, the eldest of three children, and has Russian, Ukrainian, Greek and Jewish ancestry. At 11 he was sent to Britain on his own to board at Clifton College, then studied at the University of Edinburgh. Before comedy he worked as a Russian-English legal, financial and video-game translator and interpreter.

On the stand-up side, he took his show Orwell That Ends Well to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, where reviews were mixed: The Daily Telegraph put it on its list of the festival's best comedy shows, while other critics panned it.

Since April 2018 he and Francis Foster have hosted Triggernometry, a YouTube channel and podcast built around long-form interviews. He has written for Quillette, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint, and has appeared on the BBC's Question Time.

His book An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West (2022) became a Sunday Times bestseller in its first week. On October 31, 2026, he and Foster were guests on The Joe Rogan Experience #2574.