Maxine Peake's "funny cow" overcomes an abusive father ... Maxine Peake is on commanding form and Alun Armstrong almost steals the film as a weary old-school comic who could have stepped out ...

In the 1967 Nell Dunn book/Ken Loach film Poor Cow, the heroine is glad to be shot of her violent husband and embraces an adoring new boyfriend. As Funny Cow admits, what makes her feel loved is ...

Funny Cow is one of the best British features of the year so far: an abrasive, tender and continually surprising affair whose comic moments sit next to scenes of irredeemable bleakness. The film ...

Martin Freeman has joined the cast of Funny Cow - a film set in the world of stand-up comedy. Maxine Peake - best known for her roles in TV dramas Shameless and Silk - is starring in the British ...

They can’t be any other way. So it is with Maxine Peake’s heroine in the new British film Funny Cow, about a female comedian making her way in the northern clubs of the 1970s and 1980s.

Funny Cow doesn’t have a particular point to make ... The scattershot pacing of the film touches on her relationships with the men in her life – an abusive father, no-good husband, and ...

Maxine Peake in Funny Cow But it’s a rare moment of transcendence – almost the only one – in a film that’s equal parts glum and strange. There’s a curious romantic subplot with Paddy ...

Funny Cow charts the rise to stardom of a female comedienne through the 1970s and 1980s. It is set against the backdrop of working men's clubs and the stand-up comedy circuit of the North of England.

Like most films with Middle Eastern settings, this one was filmed in Morocco, and its depiction of a divided and largely ruined Beirutmake an evocative backdrop to the intrigue. Funny Cow is the ...

Bolton-born Maxine combines both her passions in her new film role in Funny Cow, about a female comedian forging a career in stand-up comedy in the 1970s and 80s. Speaking ahead of the film’s ...

Vic Reeves and Diane Morgan have joined the cast of Funny Cow, the comedy-drama film about a woman who becomes a comedian on the Northern Working Men's Club circuit in the 1970s to escape an unhappy ...

Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of 'Funny Cow', a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the backdrop of working men's ...