Girl Walks into a Bar...
Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
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Rachel Dratch
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Rachel Dratch
About this listen
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it - at the age of 44.
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 at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog-sitting, learning Spanish - and dating. After all, what did a forty-something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.
Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word.
Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story that proves female comics - like best sellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler - are truly having their moment.
©2012 Rachel Dratch (P)2012 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Girl Walks into a Bar...
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- Annie Z
- 15-05-2016
marvelous stuff
wonderful and warm hearted. dratch brings you into her comedic word and in doing so, she wholly charms you.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-11-2019
Loved it
Rachel did such a great job of discussing some really complex emotions in a way audiences can connect to!
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- Luisa
- 06-08-2016
Looking forward for a new book
She's Amazing with capital A. Funny and sentimental is what this book is. I'd really like to find a new adventure from Rachel anytime soon.
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- Stairway to Bevan
- 17-10-2016
More Tragedy than Comedy
Just, no. I was so looking forward to this. I loved Tina Fey’s book - and Amy Poehler’s was joy filled and full of life - and in both those books, Rachel Dratch’s was mentioned. So I was giddy with anticipation. I was expecting her life story so far and a funny twist on life…. But I got 80% of the way through the book and all it was was sad stories. Stories of a victim. Stories of someone overlooked. I get it, but tale after tale ended in her being discarded, someone being abusive, forgotten, left. She may have a humorous spin, but it got too depressing. It’s not that it didn’t live up to my expectations - it’s that it made me sad. It made me despondent. It’s more like Debbie Downer wrote it. Returned.
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