The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
Painfully funny
Maxine Peake is explosive as a female comic battling a violent husband and sexism in working men's clubs, says MARIA DUARTE
Funny Cow (15)
Directed by Adrian Shergold
THIS gritty and unrelenting drama, steering seamlessly from tragedy to comedy, charts the rise to stardom of stand-up comic Funny Cow.
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