'I always open with my age: I'm putting it out there right away in case I don't make it through the show,' Ms. Forest said. That gets them laughing no matter who's in the audience.'
'Before she was making people laugh, Ms. Forest was performing cabaret and playing the piano, singing mostly in French. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, she said, people stopped coming to her shows. They went to happier places, like comedy clubs, she said.'
'Unable to work, she shifted gears and in 2003 hired a comedy coach. Within three weeks she was performing 10-minute sets throughout Manhattan, including at Comic Strip Live and Carolines on Broadway.'
'I wake up at 7 a.m. naturally. I wish I slept longer. Being 90, I'm tired. I used to make coffee on the stove top. My building has been without gas for a year and a half, so I do it in this electric thing.'
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