Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
By: Rachel Dratch
4.5 Hearts out of 5
Summary from GoodReads:
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Livestar recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother 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 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 bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their moment. (GoodReads)
Find out why Rachel Dratch quickly became a favourite person of mine:
Rachel Dratch definitely knows how to live life, and give back telling it. She knows how to make you laugh, cry, and become a stereotyped lesbian, the last one hypothetically of course. With roles that used to come so easily to moving past the Saturday Night Live platform, Dratch takes us with her on a journey no one saw coming.
How many of us knew that she used to do improv with Tina Fey? How about just how funny and amazing her dad is? Dratch tells her story very straight up, and isn't going to be sugar coating a word of it. It's casual, yet heartfelt allowing for the reader to really connect with our author.
The book is written in little snippets of stories giving flashes into Dratch's life which makes it feel like she's actually telling you little stories. The length of the book is not very long, making it an easy/quick read. I finished it in a little over a day. One because it was that enthralling and two it was that quick.
She is very open and honest in her book with stories relating to love, mistakes, babies, and being cast offered more times than not as a lesbian, secretary, or over-weight woman, or as an over-weight lesbian secretary. Either way, they weren't parts she was hoping to be offered. We find out how she copes, refuels her career, and how motherhood has played such a big part in her later life.
Rachel Dratch's openly honest story makes this book one to truly remember. Nothing is normal, and you don't know whether you should feel bad for her, laugh at the mis-happenings, or wish that you were there to comfort her. Between her grasp on Hollywood, and overwhelming reality, Dratch tells her story in the best way she knows - through laughter.
I highly recommend this to anyone who is a Rachel Dratch fan, SNL fan, or anyone who needs a good laugh.
I will be back soon with more for you!
~BetwixtDecisions
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