Rachel Dratch is Available, Gentlemen… Or Ladies… With Scripts
Attention, annoying people. Here's your chance to get Rachel Dratch to star in the Fringe show you and your buddies have been working on, like, all month.
Rachel Dratch is learning it’s not funny being an out-of-work comedian. She left Saturday Night Live two years ago and then was replaced on 30 Rock. What’s she up to now? “Maybe you can tell me,” she said at a Smart People
screening on March 31. “I know you’re supposed to come up with fake
stuff you’re doing. But honestly, I’m not doing much.” After SNL’s
hectic pace, isn’t downtime nice? “It’s starting to get old,” she said.
“I’m starting to go crazy. I’m ready for a job.” The low point came,
she said, when last month’s Vanity Fair arrived with its
cover story on women in comedy, featuring a dozen top comediennes—none
of whom was Dratch. “Dude, that was a dark day,” she recalled. “I was
like, Oh, there’s everyone I worked with.” She’s not picky about her next gig. “I’d work in a black-box theater company at this point,” she said. “I’d work with George W."
On second thought, I've been thinking forever that Rachel would be the perfect woman to play me in my one-man show about coming out to my conservative Asian/Jewish/Catholic/Black/Cylon family. So step off, annoying people. I'm jumping on this one!
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