Within this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Evening Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mom when she least anticipated it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was amusing! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten component as Jenna in the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was just getting offered functions as “Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are about Woman Walks into a Bar .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Magic lesbians.”

Her career at a minimal point, Dratch suddenly had period for yoga, doggie- sitting down, learning Spanish-and dating. After all, what do a forty- something single woman surviving in New York need to get rid of? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for love, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.

Good-looking and funny, following only half a year of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and relocated to NY to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her one 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 Club… is certainly a refreshing edition of the “gladly ever after” story that proves feminine comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are really having their minute.