If you’re not familiar with her work, the 50-year-old rocketed to comedy stardom with the help of Monkey, her undiplomatic, swearing, male puppet who she’s shared the stage with for 20 years now.

But, as anybody along the curb during last week’s Uptown Super Sunday parade can tell you, Big Chief Shaka Zulu’s “Monkey Mosaic” suit was a showstopper.

Sunlight premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: A woman, a life-sized monkey suit and a man with unfinished business. When real life and fiction collide. As if August wasn’t ...

‘I thought if I was falling in love with you – which I happened to be – from within this monkey suit, I would be scared to come out, because I’d be a let down after monkey is so funny and ...

Sunlight premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: A woman, a life-sized monkey suit and a man with unfinished business. When real life and fiction collide.