Rachel Dratch Biography

Fast Facts

• Received two Joseph Jefferson awards for Best Actress in a Revue, one for "Paradigm Lost" and one for "Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers․"
• Attended Dartmouth College, graduating with majors in drama and psychology in 1988
• Worked at an ice cream shop called Chadwicks
• Quote: "I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish or the prairie․"
• Quote: "[on her memoir] "I thought maybe if I just wrote the whole story then all of the mystery would be gone and I could fully move on from people asking me what happened․""
• Performed on the main stage of the Second City comedy troupe for four years
• Known for her "Saturday Night Live" character Debbie Downer
• Attended her first concert put on by The Police
• Claimed she saw the ghosts of two 1950s closeted gay men in a hotel room
• Stated her favorite meal was a New York pizza
• Wrote an autobiography called "Girl Walks Into a Bar․․․: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle․"