Her award was presented by Ross Mathews of RuPaul's Drag Race.
[1] Forest lived though World War II and lost her whole family in Riga in the Holocaust.
[2] Forest worked as a singer and pianist, performing cabaret songs mostly in French.
In 2003, she hired a comedy coach and began to perform standup sets in clubs in Manhattan.
[3] At 88, Forest performed an autobiographical one-woman show, Swinging on the Seine: Searching for Amour in 1960s Paris, at Joe's Pub in Manhattan,[1][4] after performing it at La Nouvelle Seine in Paris and the Duplex Cabaret Theatre in New York.