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 ...

She is one of the nation’s best loved actresses, but Maxine Peake has revealed if she could do it all again, acting would NOT be her first choice. Instead, Maxine says she wished she had pursued a ...

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 ...

Maxine Peake’s latest film isn’t a comedy. It’s a drama about humour, set in a time and place when, to adopt the vernacular of late 20th-century Yorkshire, a big “cock” is a must-have item. It’s both ...

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Austin Allison is an Animation Feature Writer for Collider. He is also an illustator, avid cartoon watcher, and occasional singer. His karaoke favorites include singing Rainbow Connection as Kermit ...