num_pages: 248
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
publisher: Gotham