Drinking is good for you. Being single is bad for you. You_x0019_ re more likely to die in bed than in a plane crash. Stand up mathematician Matt Parker and comedian Timandra Harkness got sick of reading ill-founded stories about how eating this or doing that was going to add six months to your life span, or halve your risk of dying from something or other. So they got a grant from the UK_x0019_ s biggest biomedical charity, the Wellcome Trust, to do the research and bring you the most definitive comedy show ever about dying. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe they did sell-out shows to 4-star reviews like _x001C_ exponentially funny_x001D_ and _x001C_ Dead fascinating stuff, imparted with a light, unpatronising touch. It's certainly not just for maths geeks_x001D_ . So they_x0019_ ve taken it on tour. Possibly the only person to hold the prestigious title of London Mathematical Society Popular Lecturer while simultaneously having a sold-out comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Matt Parker was the warm-up guy for the 2008 and 2009 Royal Institution Christmas lectures in London. Matt Parker appears regularly on BBC Radio42 s Infinite Monkey Cage and writes about maths for The Guardian. Timandra spent five years performing solo stand up comedy after running away from the circus, before forming double act THE COMEDY RESEARCH PROJECT, with scientist Dr. Helen Pilcher. No Future in Eternity, a cosmological comedy she wrote with Linda Cotterill, went out on BBC Radio 4 after a successful Edinburgh Fringe run. You have a 0.000043% chance of dying during this show*. And if you do, we will refund the unused portion of your ticket to your grieving family. _x001C_ There is a real sense of risk and danger surrounding Timandra Harkness_x0019_ 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._x001D_ - The Scotsman "Matt Parker does the funniest closed-loop complex integral routine I've ever seen. He'll have you rolling in the aisle like an infinitesimal disk of radius epsilon." - Simon Singh *Of course, this is equally true of any other fringe show of the same length. But we will at least make sure you die laughing.
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