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.

Davis has a form of dwarfism called diastrophic dysplasia and has a stature of 3 feet 6 inches (107 cm).

In November 1999, she placed second in the Seattle Comedy Competition. She was the first woman in 10 years to make it into the finals. In October 2012, she placed sixth 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 Festival Fringe in Scotland. She then embarked on a UK tour in the spring of 2004. She featured at the Edinburgh Fringe again in 2013.

In the US, she 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.

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