Rachel Dratch
If it gets laughs, it's funny.Collection: Humor
I have no wisdom to share on dating.Collection: Dating
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.Collection: Space
Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
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.
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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.
I started doing improv my sophomore year.
I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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.
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.
When I was little, we used to have Atari.
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.
When I was a kid, I was super shy.
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.Collection: Hate
In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're laughing or they're not laughing, that's the only gauge you really have. But with TV and movies and everything, it's like "Well, did you get a meeting at so-and-so?" and "So-and-so's really hot right now," which is all the stuff I'm probably still not used to.Collection: Laughing
If it gets laughs, it’s funny.Collection: Laughing
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.Collection: Women
I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.Collection: Baby
The people, they are the ones with the real answers.Collection: Real
The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.Collection: Never Quit
The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.Collection: Real
I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.Collection: Girl