Rachel Dratch’s memoir, Girl Walks into a Bar . . ., follows its subtitle exactly: she splits her book into the three sections of Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle. Comedy Calamities: most of us probably know Dratch from Saturday Night Live, and the occasional “ugly girl” role in a movie. She starts with a hyperbolized call from her agent, in which she’s asked to audition for someone monstrously ugly (and likely a lesbian). She explains that she’s pretty much offered only these roles post-SNL (with a hat […]
Girl Walks into a Bar…
I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants pre-Cannonballread and Amy Poheler’s Yes, Please last year, both women mention Rachel Dratch in their memoirs because they were friendly in Chicago and on SNL at the same time. For the last few years Girl Walks into a Bar… has been on my recommendations lists from Barnes & Nobel, Amazon and Goodreads- so it was time to give Ms. Dratch a spin. Girl is different than her colleagues’ memoirs because SNL wasn’t the stepping stone for her career, it was […]
Not trying so hard, not planning ahead, just getting out of your own head and letting the magic happen.
Rachel Dratch is not someone who I would normally go running out to buy or read their memoir. I know her from her time on SNL, which coincided with the time in my life that I initially started watching the show live. But, she wasn’t someone I followed, and I didn’t watch 30 Rock, so I was largely unaware of the media firestorm surrounding her replacement by Jane Krakowski. But after having read Tina Fey and Darrel Hammond’s biographies for previous Cannonball Reads and seeing […]