Friday, July 10, 2015

Girl Walks into a Bar by Rachel Dratch


I started reading this book, and then stopped.  After listening to Amy Poehler's audibooks, I wanted to hear Rachel Dratch as the narrator.

  • Unlike Fey & Poehler's recent books, this is not a book about what it is like to be super successful.   As a seven year veteran of SNL Dratch has a solid career, but she isn't staring in big budget films.
  • Dratch is surprisingly down to earth.
  • One of the highlights for me was hearing the backstory of what inspired the Debbie Downer character.  It appears that Dratch doesn't realize the very useful terminology she introduced into the lexicon to accurately describe a specific annoying pattern of behavior.
  • Only a small section of the book is about Dratch's career.  The books is really about her life.
  • Dratch is candid about personal struggles and difficult feelings.

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