Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .

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Rachel Dratch

The former SNL star recounts the adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mom when she least expected it—at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as “Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians.” Her career as a female comedian at a low point, she suddenly had time for yoga, dog-sitting, learning Spanish—and dating. Dratch reveals the joys and terrors of putting herself out there in a quest to find love and then becoming a mother in an undreamed-of way. With riotous humor, she recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and romance and coparenting with her baby-daddy, John. Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch’s time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar . . . is a funny book with a refreshing version of the happily-ever-after story, full of sensitivity, candor, and plenty of comic relief, as only Rachel Dratch can tell it.

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Author

Rachel Dratch

Pages

256

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published Date

2013-02-05

ISBN

1592407579 9781592407576

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"This is a comedian’s memoir I can get behind 100%. This was great. As with any mid life memoir, I am left with questions about what is happening NOW and how different this might be written later in life when we have a fuller picture, but honestly it was so well put together and thought out that we still got the full, cohesive picture for where the story stops. And omg Rachel Dratch is just so funny, I adore her. "

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"I like memoirs. This one was my favorite in particular because we get to hear how it was that Rachel was dropped as Jenna for the 30 rock pilot. It’s kinda insane how tv works sometimes."