Comedy

Is there anything too serious to make jokes about? No. The more important or dreadful something is, the more we need to laugh at it. That’s what I told Carlton TV – but they still cut my joke about the Princess Diana memorial scratchcard. Hey – I wasn’t the one who thought it was in good taste to commemorate a fatal road accident with a low-budget gambling product.

So it's apt that I'm taking a show to the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe about the maths of death.Your Days Are Numbered will be at the Assembly Rooms for the whole of August. I'm working with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, so I won't have to do any arithmetic myself.

Training as a circus clown revealed the horrible truth – instead of sequins on the flying trapeze, I was destined for a life of pratfalls and pies in the face. So I have done stand up and impro, written topical gags and sketches for Radio, short films and feature scripts, and become the Morecambe (or Wise) of science in the Comedy Research Project.

I’ve done various things on TV, including BBC panel game Mind Games and an ad where I had to dress up as a giant cat..

Quotes

“There is a real sense of risk and danger surrounding Timandra Harkness’s act. ... Harkness has a deadly wit. She tosses away subtle one-liners as though they were chocolate wrappings, then picks them up and recycles them in her next routine.”
The Scotsman

“hilarious entertainment of probably the most bizarre kind that Thornbury has seen…”
Thornbury Journal