In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd. Indeed, he is so tall he has to stoop in the little underground venue beneath the Tron. He comes across as the cuddly and amiable sort of comedian you would want to take home to meet your parents and he used to be an accountant. So, all of those boxes are ticked.
Time, procrastination and memory are the themes of Goodliffe’s second solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In trying to answer the lofty question of what time actually is, he creates quite a scientific stand-up show in which he covers everything from the 10,000 year clock to the 10 minute freeview.
Goodliffe often ‘forgets’ where he is in the show and consistently goes off on tangents - cue ‘procrastination’. Clearly the set is quite cleverly put together, as well as the material itself being fairly geeky. Goodliffe has an engineering degree and talks the audience through the physics of time, as well as rapping about electricity. However, the jokes themselves are more often than not predictable and a little cheap. If you like a bit of intellect with your laughter, and don’t mind jokes about croutons in the Caesar calendar, then this is a show for you.
