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Funny Cow
A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone, Funny Cow charts the rise of a female stand-up comic who delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure in the sometimes violent and always macho clubs of Northern England in the '70s.
Adrian Shergold
Tony Pitts
Casts & Crew
Maxine Peake
Stephen Graham
Christine Bottomley
Paddy Considine
Tony Pitts
Alun Armstrong
Lindsey Coulson
Kevin Eldon
Hannah Walters
Diane Morgan
Macy Shackleton
Hebe Beardsall
Tom Gibbons
Ashton Steele
Vic Reeves
John Bishop
Graham Hughes
Richard Hawley
Corinne Bailey Rae
Bobby Knutt
Kevin Rowland
Dominic Brunt
Duggie Brown
Robert Curtis
Steven E Harris
Kate Russell-Smith
Jayne Bickerton
Steve Money
Kay Boggett
Jake Holdsworth
Danny Hawley
Alfie Graham
Grace Graham
Lissi Brook
Lily Jones Adkin
Calvin Cawood
Bilko
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