Lynn Ruth Miller: This is Your Future

"I'm a granny, and I've gone wild!" sings Lynn Ruth Miller in the cabaret number that closes her set. She's certainly not your average pensioner, that much is clear. 

Having started standup at age 70, the now 82-year-old American comic is as fiery as ever. There's only four people in the audience tonight, but that doesn't deter her. Instead it makes the show feel like an intimate story-swapping session where a particularly funny grandmother lays bare the untold truths of growing old.

Her comic edge is razor sharp, dispelling any notion that she's just a benign old lady. With her darting eyes and fiesty temperament, there's a zip about her that belies her age. The material is mostly rooted in Jewish-American cultural identity, playing off the stereotypes effectively, and there's more than a touch of Joan Rivers about her. It's old-fashioned comedy from someone with the gravitas to pull it off. She documents the shifts in courting rituals from the 1950s to the present day, with tales of 21st-century octogenarian dating making it sound like a logistical nightmare. She's even been on Tinder, although she remarks that a full-body scan would be a more useful indicator than a headshot. 

It's simple in its premise and its execution, but it makes for riotous good fun. It's well-worn schtick that's rejuvinated by the unlikeliest of sources. If this is our future, then we're going to make for some pretty exuberant grandparents.