It was a tough week for the beleaguered American beef industry, which had to deal with the news of a dairy cow infected with mad cow disease. It's only the fourth ever discovered in the U.S., and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filming under way on Entertainment One’s 1970s-set comedy drama. Production on Funny Cow, which stars Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything, Shameless) as a stand-up comedienne, has begun in ...

What a grim life it must have been. Maxine Peake's "funny cow" overcomes an abusive father, alcoholic mother, childhood bullying, a violent caveman of a husband and waves of brutal misogyny to pursue ...