Girl Walks Into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle - Rachel Dratch

The former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of becoming a mother when she least expected it--at the age of 44. The happily ever after story proves female comics are truly having their moment. \nThe 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. \nAnyone 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. \n \nHer 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. \n \nFilled 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.\n