Tanyalee Davis

Tanyalee Davis (born 27 November 1970) is a Canadian comedian who tours extensively throughout the world but mostly in the UK. Davis also obtained her US citizenship in the fall of 2010.

She has a form of dwarfism called D.D. (diastrophic dysplasia). She currently stands 3'6" tall (and shrinking).

In November 1999, Tanyalee placed 2nd in the Seattle Comedy Competition. She was the first woman in 10 years to make it into the finals. In October 2012, Tanyalee placed 6th overall in the San Francisco Comedy festival. In April 2001, she headlined at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

She won the 2003 Norman G. Brooks Standup Comedy Scholarship Competition held at the Hollywood Improv. In August 2003, she was part of the "US Comedy Invasion" show, performing at the world’s largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland. She then embarked on a UK tour in the spring of 2004.

2015 was a great year career wise. She appeared on 2 major TV shows in the Uk, both on the BBC. The first was The John Bishop Show" - a variety show hosted by the top notch Liverpudlian, John Bishop. The second show was "Live At the Apollo" - with their first ever Christmas edition. The Apollo is the highest ranked standup comedy show in the UK and will most certainly open many doors for the pint-size dynamo. Both sets were very well received according to social media.

In 2005, she performed as part of "Abnormally Funny People", with Steve Best, Liz Carr, Steve Day, Chris McCausland and Simon Minty. As part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the following year she appeared with Liz Carr in Bravetarts. In 2007 she performed her one woman show Little Do They Know. She revamped the fringe show and had a six-month contract at the Clarion hotel/casino in Las Vegas in 2011. In August 2013, Tanyalee went back to the Edinburgh Fringe with her new one person show called, "Big Trouble In Little 'Gina" which is based on a terrible medical ordeal starting at the end of 2012.

In 2011-12 Tanyalee was a series regular on the UK's Channel 4 TV show called I'm Spazticus.

In the USA, Tanyalee was featured on Last Comic Standing in 2004, on Animal Planet's hit show, Pit Boss(2012) as well as Dr Drew on CNN. Previous credits include Austin Powers in Goldmember movie teaser, "For the Love of Money"(Movie 2002), MTV’s Bash of Carson Daly (TV 2003) and the Fox network's reality show 30 Seconds To Fame.

Tanyalee was featured in a few British-produced programming such as SkyTV's documentary of the making of "Abnormally Funny People" as well as ITV's SuperHuman: World's Smallest People (which also aired on TLC in the US). Her extensive spinal surgery was a focus in this show.[1] On 28 August 2013, she appeared as a special guest on live comedy Paralympics show The Last Leg, discussing Jim Davidson's comments about "midgets".

Tanyalee is taking her standup show, Actual Size on tour starting at the SoHo theatre in London in Feb 2016 and then the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia in March of 2016. Her career is on the rise so watch out!

References

  1. ↑ http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/08/comedian-davis-wont-let-anything-keep-her-down/


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