Performance

I ran away from the circus to pursue stand-up and improvised comedy, and discovered a talent for compèring, provocative topical humour, and flying by the seat of my pants. And yes, I have played the Edinburgh Fringe.

In fact I was back on the Fringe in 2010 with a new show, Your Days Are Numbered - the maths of death. Working with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, we proved that there is a startlingly large audience for maths-based topical comedy. And got 4 four-star reviews. After doing it at Cheltenham Science Festival in 2011, we have a national tour in 2012 - see Your Days Are Numbered for details - and are taking the show to Australia for the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

TV appearances include BBC 4’s panel show, Mind Games, being the Woman from the Future on Pulling Power, and wearing a furry cat costume in award-wining adverts for petfood. Ah… the glamour...

Now half of the Comedy Research Project – with Dr. Helen Pilcher – we test the hypothesis that science can be funny. I also work with Dr. Harry Witchel in the show Dr. Witchel’s 7 Rules of Dating.

Quotes

“Respect is due…to Timandra Harkness, whose canny routine with a vibrator appealed, on different levels, to men and women.”
Evening Standard

“as a compere Harkness was brilliant" 
Platform

“Exponentially Funny”
Three Weeks