Where Is SNL Star Rachel Dratch Now? (EXCLUSIVE)

'SNL' Alum Rachel Dratch Is Revisiting Her Sketch Comedy Roots and Bringing a "Woo Woo" Persona to Life (EXCLUSIVE)

Rachel Dratch is one in all SNL’s greatest stars. She’s now an creator, a podcaster, and the illustrious Warrantina.

Apr. 25 2024, Published 4:05 p.m. ET

The yr was 2004, and Debbie Downer made her first look on Saturday Night Live. Portrayed via Rachel Dratch, the nature would grow to be one of the most recognizable, hilarious, and iconic SNL characters so far. Rachel solidified her title as a legendary woman in comedy, and then in 2006, she left SNL at the back of to focus on other initiatives.

Now, Rachel has been stoning up everywhere our televisions as she takes on the position of Warrantina — a free-spirited spokesperson for American Home Shield. She’s additionally taking that power into her podcast, Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch, wherein she interviews different comics and artists about their otherworldly studies. She spoke exclusively with Distractify about what she’s up to now and the way existence has changed since her SNL days.

Now, Rachel Dratch is partnering with American Home Shield as their spokesperson just after her stint on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’

Most advertisements are simply regular advertisements, however not whilst you get Rachel Dratch involved. “American Home Shield approached me about performing some sort of amusing character and, myself and the ladies from the ad agency, we got here up with a couple of choices and ran them via the big wigs. All of our options I really beloved. I thought they are in point of fact funny and we landed on Warrantina, who, to me was simply tremendous amusing because she seems like a caricature persona,” Rachel shared completely with Distractify.

“So it felt like I was doing an SNL caricature nearly. And I were given to kind of create her look too, with the hair and dresser and all that,” she added, regarding Warrantina’s signature hippie look. “So identical to we used to do on SNL, when your caricature were given picked, you went to the design team and mentioned, ‘Here's what I'm picturing.’ It used to be sort of the similar thing for this. And they have been surely open to any joke ideas I had or scenario ideas.

“But I have to mention that the advert company used to be in point of fact truly humorous,” Rachel admitted. “So I believed I'd must do more heavy lifting and I in reality did not because they're they're in point of fact humorous. What I like about it, it is like doing a comic strip that happens to also be for American Home Shield, however for me, it felt like SNL or something.” The commercials are in fact funny, which is why they’ve gained so much attention.

They also brought the spotlight back to Rachel, who finished a run on Celebrity Jeopardy! in which she took down Macaulay Culkin, whom she hadn’t met sooner than competing on the display. “He almost beat me too,” she shared, “I was like, ‘I'm about to get my a-- beaten by means of Macaulay Culkin! He's extremely smart. He's very smart. So that was once that was an uncongenial wonder to learn the way smart he is,” she joked. “But he used to be really nice. And then in the remaining minute I did pull it out.”

As we gear up for any other election season, Rachel also reflects on her previous.

In 2020, Rachel returned to SNL to portray Senator Amy Klobuchar, who used to be one of Joe Biden’s warring parties in the primary. The 2024 election cycle is other, however, with a simple Biden vs. Trump rematch. When asked if she’d go back to SNL if the chance arose, Rachel shared, “My gosh, that might be wonderful,” showing how much love she has for the show that built up her profession.

“There's no longer as many ladies in politics, unfortunately, both for existence and for playing. So, I don't know if I'm holding my breath,” she admitted. “But if somebody got here alongside, of course, I’d soar at the probability.” Plus, the ladies currently on SNL have enough to worry about with the new viral video in which a “fan” claimed that SNL doesn’t rent sizzling girls.

Rachel wrote about how an emphasis on appears and the drive to be a “scorching woman” impacted her occupation in her 2012 memoir, Girl Walks Into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle. Now, on the other hand, her point of view has changed. “I simply do not give it air anymore … I suppose I see it extra like, you play your sort basically. I’ll do no matter comes my method that I think like is me,” she stated.

“That’s a complete 92nd Street Y lecture,” she joked, relating to our short interview time and methods to handle the sort of huge matter. But that just is going to turn that a two-minute TikTok video may also not be the best place to take on ladies’s looks and ranges of hotness (as if women will have to be judging other ladies’s appearances anyway) in comedy.

Now, Rachel is giving air instead to her podcast, Woo Woo. “I at all times love a tale where anyone tells a psychic thing that happened or a ghost tale or some eerie coincidence, and those are my favourite tales. And I was like, ‘Oh, those are my favourite tales. Why now not have a podcast where you're having your mates come on, and tell the tale?’” With crazy stories about ghosts and astral projection and guests like Will Ferrell and Tina Fey, we’re all about wooing for Rachel.

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