{"product_id":"2940171965396","title":"Girl Walks into a Bar . . . : Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this side-splitting memoir, the former \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who saw an episode of \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of \u003ci\u003e30 Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, Dratch was only getting offered roles as \"Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish-and dating. After all, what did a forty- something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on \u003ci\u003eSNL, Girl Walks into a Bar...\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing version of the \"happily ever after\" story that proves female comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156776534256,"sku":"2940171965396","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171965396_p0.jpg?v=1763750421","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171965396","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}