Funny Cow
When life knocks you down... stand up.
A darkly comedic character study of a working-class woman mining her trauma for laughs as she claws her way up the stand-up circuit in 1970s Northern England.
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
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