So it's interesting to see Funny Cow taking us back to a time – the 1970s – when female comics would be booed off stage. Maxine Peake is Funny Cow, a Northern working-class woman whose life is ...

SOME people are born to do what they do. 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 ...

It is never easy to convey humour through satire, and in a place like India it can be tougher still. There are too many holy cows here and too many quick-tempered livewires out to defend them. And yet ...

The working men's clubs of the 1970s are a tough proving ground for the female comedian played by Maxine Peake in new film Funny Cow, she tells Janet Christie It’s 1980s Blackpool and a young Maxine ...

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