Funny Cow is a funny film in both senses of the word. Pitts has an eye for the ridiculous – and an ear for the well-honed gag – but his wildly ambitious script is also “funny peculiar”.

Or rather, surviving it without having to compromise who she is. Which makes Funny Cow (the movie) a curiously unconventional, fictional biopic. There’s no lesson to be learned here; no ‘rise ...

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 ...

Funny Cow is about a nameless female comedian trying ... whereas the reality is also one of economic aspiration. The film is set against the back drop of the working men's clubs in the northCredit ...

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 ...

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 a film about stand-up comedy: so why isn’t it funny? It is unfortunate that nothing Maxine Peake’s stand-up comic says, either on or off stage, is remotely amusing. By Ryan Gilbey Comedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That Peake’s character is known only as ‘Funny Cow’ is just one of this film’s many quirks, and her performance is one of its chief pleasures. She’s a brassy, belligerent, working-class ...

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.