Rachel Dratch

American actress and comedian

Rachel Dratch is an American actress and comedian who is best known for her work on Saturday Night Live. She has also appeared in various TV shows and films, and in 2022 made her Broadway debut. Dratch has an impressive comedy career, from improv in Chicago to her award-nominated Broadway role.

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About the Rachel Dratch

Rachel Susan Dratchis an American actress and comedian. After she graduated from Dartmouth College, she moved to Chicago to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic. Dratch’s breakthrough role was her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. During her time on SNL, she portrayed a variety of roles including Debbie Downer. She has since occasionally returned to SNL as a guest portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Other television credits include The King of Queens, Monk, and 30 Rock. She has also played the recurring role of Wanda Jo Oliver on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, acting in films including Click (2006), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), Sisters (2015), and Wine Country (2019).

In 2022, Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination. In 2012 she published her autobiographical book Girl Walks into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Rachel Dratch’s breakthrough role was as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a part of the cast from 1999 to 2006.

In addition to Saturday Night Live, Rachel Dratch has appeared in TV shows like The King of Queens, Monk, and 30 Rock. She has also had roles in films such as Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sisters, and Wine Country.

In 2022, Rachel Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in the play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

After graduating from Dartmouth College, Rachel Dratch moved to Chicago to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic.

In addition to her acting career, Rachel Dratch published an autobiographical book in 2012 titled Girl Walks into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle.

Yes, Rachel Dratch has occasionally returned to Saturday Night Live as a guest, portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Rachel Dratch played the recurring role of Wanda Jo Oliver on the TV show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

12 Quotes by Rachel Dratch

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    The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    I started doing improv my sophomore year.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    If you have an impulse, not if you’re going to ruin someone elses’ scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    I’m definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    Actually, I didn’t like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    I had always wanted to be on SNL, it’s not always great, but it’s this leftover childhood dream.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I’m sorry to say that he’s very nice and there’s not much bad to say about him. I don’t know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don’t think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don’t know about.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian

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    When I was little, we used to have Atari.

    Rachel Dratch

    American actress and comedian