Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle Audiobook (Free)

With this side-splitting memoir, the former Sunday Night time Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and learning to be a mother when she least anticipated it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night time Live between 1999 and 2006 understands Rachel Dratch. She was amusing! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten component as Jenna for the pilot of 30 Rock and roll, Dratch was just getting offered assignments as “Lesbians. Secretaries. Occasionally secretaries who are about Young lady Walks right into a Bar .: Comedy Calamities, Internet dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle lesbians.”

Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had period for yoga, pet- sitting down, learning Spanish-and dating. In the end, what did a forty- something one woman surviving in New York need to lose? Resigned to childlessness but nonetheless hoping for love, Dratch was out for drinks with a pal when she met John.

Good looking and funny, following only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to NY to be always a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her one friends, as well as the awkwardness of the baby-care class where the instructor held tossing out the f-word.

Filled up with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch’s time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Club… is a refreshing edition from the “happily ever after” story that proves woman comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their instant.