Verna Gillis has been performing "sit-down comedy" standing up since 2010 when she won her first slam sponsored by TMI in Ulster County. The topic was Coming of Age which she changed to Coming of Aging. She was 68.Her niche is aging - and so is she.Her One Older-Woman Show is called TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK - On the Verge of Extinction. She talks about childhood, the holocaust. addiction, aging, drugs, scones, peeing, and cancer. She laughs her way through it.