Comedian and cabaret artist D’yan Forest (currently the Guinness World Records Title Holder for Oldest Working Female Comedian in the World) has always been ahead of her time. In 1963 she moved to Paris as a young, innocent, recently divorced Bostonian looking to make it big in the Parisian cabaret scene. Immersing herself in the glitz, glamour, and scandalous nightlife of the era, the naive D’yan was transported from a sheltered suburban existence to a life filled with underground sex clubs and the swinger’s scene as is witnessed in her new cabaret show Swinging on the Seine: Searching for Amour in 1960’s Paris.

D’yan is celebrating her 88th birthday by performing, Swinging on the Seine at the iconic Joe’s Pub on Sunday July 31st, at 7pm (doors open at 6pm). The audacious D’yan officially turns eighty-eight in the middle of the show. Through stand-up comedy and song, accompanied by her trusty ukulele, D’yan takes you back to her first years in the City of Love. She also shares stories of her current life as an octogenarian, and returning to Paris to live (in her early 80’s), and making it big once again.

Swinging on the Seine was co-written by Stephen Clarke, a British journalist, and the bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love.