Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Rachel Dratch (Author, Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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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.

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5 hours and 12 minutes
Author

Rachel Dratch
Narrator

Rachel Dratch
Audible release date

3 April 2012
Language

English
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Penguin Audio
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1101564377
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	5 hours and 12 minutes
Author	Rachel Dratch
Narrator	Rachel Dratch
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	03 April 2012
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	1101564377
Best Sellers Rank	12,170 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 25 in Comedy (Audible Books & Originals) 50 in Comedy (Books) 102 in Love, Sex & Marriage Humour

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Robin Laurence

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 11 January 2015

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Funny, poignant story about a positive and persevering girl continually one step behind.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 September 2018

Actual rating 3.5 stars.

I’m starting to enjoy memoirs a lot more lately. Relating my life to theirs, learning about life’s difficulties by walking in someone else’s shoes and all that. And it definitely helps if they’re funny – I’m a positive person. So autobiographies from comedians always get to the top of my TBR when I’m in the mood.

Even though Rachel Dratch is another great favourite comedian/actor of mine, and for some reason I wasn’t expecting this memoir to be gut-busting hilarious the entire way. Maybe I’ve been educated from my past reads in this genre, or maybe it was the style of narrative in the first few pages that lead me to realise this was going to have much more of a story and a moral about it than a collection of funny stories.

I really enjoyed it. Yes, I had a number of laugh-so-hard-I-cried moments, and there is a lightness and positivity lurking underneath Dratch’s tales of misadventure. I related to her story. A lot. It’s my age, my gender, my experiences with many knock-backs, but an inevitable will to go for what I want. A mix of optimism, pig-headedness, cowardice and mysticism.

We get a peek behind the curtain at SNL and some of her acting jobs which was interesting – more so about how she dealt with the environment rather than juicy back stage gossip. But it is her journey through life, and events/opportunities continually coming much later than typically expected (another thing I related to), that were touching and heart-felt. It was not meant to be a poor-me sob story or pity party. It was a plain statement of how society puts pressure and labels on women of a certain age in the various stages of their life. Sometimes it just makes you want to scream a rude word at everyone, like one of the crazy New Yorkers she talks about. It is unfair and discriminatory (and somewhat nasty) but Dratch navigates around it all silently, forever searching for her own happily ever after. But – she’ ain’t dead yet, so don’t expect to read it by the end of the book – though the spirit still lives strong in her heart.

I would have liked to read more about her creative process, and experienced a little more funny stuff in her book, but feel privileged to have been able to share this snippet of her life. It helped validate my own choices and circumstances.

I read the book in a day, there were no boring bits, no drawling on with dull events. It left me with a feeling of being ready to take life by the short and curlies. I remember to smile, laugh, cry, love my family, and revel in the roller-coaster that is life.

It was an interesting experience to strongly identify with a woman I don’t know, on the other side of the world living a life so drastically different from my own – but still the same in some ways.

A thoroughly entertaining, touching story of getting on with life…

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Luke Holdaway

One of the funniest books you'll ever read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2015

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I'll admit that when buying this book, I didn't really know who Rachel Dratch is - I only purchased this book as it was recommended when buying the memoirs of Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling. I could not have been happier about this impulse buy - Second only to Tina Fey's 'Bossy Pants', this is the best memoir I have ever read. This is a book that is endearing and GENUINELY 'laugh-out-loud' funny as Dratch puts aside her embarrassments and social faux pas to tell the story of her life 'after success' - a change to the usual story of careers from other celebrities out there, and one that will leave you with a new sense of respect and adoration for the completely down-to-earth and hilarious ex-SNL star.

If you enjoy memoirs, or even just love a book that makes you cry with laughter, then this is the book for you.

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Rachel T.

Great Read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2017

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Hilariously funny book, highly recommend!

Carla Gallagher

Fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2019

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Nice book.

Anonymous

Very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2016

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I have seen a few sketches with Rachel Dratch, but didn't know her that well, so was unsure what I would think . I really like this book - you don't need to know her work to enjoy this.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2014

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