Our pets do funny things sometimes, and if we're lucky enough to catch them doing them, of course we record it! Bre Boyette is mom at the Fur & Feather's Farm where Dumplin' the cow and his best ...

Despite the title, Funny Cow is not a comedy. There are a lot of jokes, but — trust us — you’re not supposed to laugh at them. Even when the title character (whose real name we’re never told) gets her ...

On special occasions like Mother’s Day, many moms love to be surrounded by their kids. From the ones they raised to their bonus babies or from their adopted children to those chosen fur babies, ...

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 ...

After a conversation on the set of ‘Red Riding’, Tony Pitts (Emmerdale, Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty) wrote ‘Funny Cow’ specifically for Maxine Peak, and it’s not difficult to see why. Peake drinks up ...

Cows, especially female cows or "heifers," lend themselves to cute names, especially soft, floral ones. If you're looking for something gentle, sweet, and melodious, these cute cow names should fit ...

Director: Adrian Shergold. Cast: Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Tony Pitts, Stephen Graham, Kevin Eldon, Vic Reeves, Kevin Rowland, Corinne Bailey Rae, Richard Hawley, Alun Armstrong, Christine ...

OVER the past couple of years, countless commentators have struggled to get to grips with the slippery notion of “Britishness”. I can’t get a handle on it either, but I think I know it when I see it.

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 ...

Maxine Peake grabs this '70s-set comedy by the scruff of the neck as a stand-up who takes no prisoners. ‘It’s not a job for a woman,’ warns comic Lenny (Alun Armstrong) when he’s approached by Maxine ...

She has to overcome a violent husband (Tony Pitts, who wrote the script), following the kind of impoverished childhood that has been mercilessly spoofed elsewhere; violent dad, alcoholic mum, a life ...