• Girl Walks into a Bar...

  • Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
  • By: Rachel Dratch
  • Narrated by: Rachel Dratch
  • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (5,335 ratings)

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By: Rachel Dratch
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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 Audio

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Honest, Funny, Heartfelt and Relatable

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Engaging. I found myself wanting to know more and more. Easy and enjoyable to listen too. It feels very honest. She also seems very modest, considering all that she has accomplished. But, also relatable, having had similar issues and challenges. Mix of happy and sad with wit/humor.

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This should be a movie

I want to see this as a movie starring Rachel because the story is hilarious the way she told it. Yes, I just put that into the UNIVERSE

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Finally! An entire performance by Rachel Dratch

She is so funny and tells her story in the most hilarious way. We are all in on the joke. She is a strong woman who tells her story in a self deprecating way. I laughed out loud in my car while listening.

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funny, cleaver, and interesting.

What an enjoyable memoir. it's great to hear her stories and realistic reactions to life.

I enjoyed listening to her tell these tales.

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Perfect for parents who are SNL fans

I really enjoyed it as a parent who happens to like the 90s cast of SNL. She performed it energetically and not too over the top which helped make it a great listen while taking care of stuff around the house.

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perfect

great entertainment. funny. well told insightful. fun. she opens with a messed up story about what it was like to be dismissed from 30 rock and replaced by Jenna, but it's also funny. from that point, the book's honesty is still high, bit the stories become now positive. she had a unique perspective about becoming a mother by accident, so anyone struggling with that sorry if issue should definitely read.

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I listened to it

So, maybe because my life has been pretty crazy since I was an adolescent, but my God this woman has lived a boring life. Literally, nothing interesting happened to her. She should have lied and made some stuff up. Also, her suburban flaming liberal view on life comes through in everything she says.

All of that being said, she is just a generally good person, funny enough, and tells a good story. She is just someone you root for. And the book was good enough to compel me to listen to the whole thing, which I can't say the same for Tina Fey's book.

Try David Spade, or Norm MacDonald, Whitney Cummings, Kevin Hart or countless others first. This book is pretty boring, Sorry Rachel.

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LOL

Loved this book. Honestly made me laugh out loud several times and made my coworkers worry about me.

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well written and read

Even if you've never watched SNL or heard of Rachel, this book stands on its own. Funny, poignant and beautifully done .

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Wonderful Honest Book.

Beautiful story ❤ thank you for sharing your life with us. Very Entertaining Life.

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