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 ...

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 ...