Tanyalee Davis 'humiliated' for using disabled space

A comedian has hit out at a train operator after she was "harassed and humiliated" for using a disabled space for her mobility scooter.

Tanyalee Davis: Actual Size

The gross imagery will stick with you longer than any jokes about the awful situation, but as with this whole hour, it's her devil-may-care attitude and inherent good humour that sells the tale.

Radio Times review

A lightly sparkling edition of the stand-up showcase, although without too much disrespect to the comics on the bill, a Christmas Apollo doesn't mean a host of bigger names. Josh Widdicombe, after a year of ubiquity that's included sitcom and topical comedy as well as stage work, gets a very warm welcome for a decent observational routine about going home for Christmas to a single bed. Before him are the ribald Tanyalee Davis and Hal Cruttenden, who's always a little edgier than his camp, cuddly persona suggests.

The host is ventriloquist Nina Conti, doing her now-familiar improvisation using audience members as dummies.

Line up for Women In Comedy Festival 2014 revealed

Running in Greater Manchester from Saturday 11 until Sunday 26 October the 2014 Women in Comedy Festival features more than 80 shows across an incredible 16 venues. The festival is full to the brim with female comedic talent with over 125 acts confirmed including big names such as Jo Caulfield, Zoe Lyons, Janey Godley, Luisa Omielan, Felicity Ward, Jo Neary, Barbara Nice, Kate Smurthwaite, Tanyalee Davis, Dana Alexander and Jo Enright.

Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast episode 15

In the last of Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcasts, recorded live at this year's Edinburgh festival, Lee Mack chats about riding Red Rum and Tim FitzHigham tells Mark Dolan about sailing across the English Channel in a bathtub. Meanwhile, there's standup from Tanyalee Davis, Paul Foot and David Morgan.