Comedian Rachel Dratch has built a career out of her ability to embody outrageous characters. Dratch’s passion for comedy began in her youth, when she participated in school plays, favoring comedies over dramas. She studied psychology and drama at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1988. From 1995 to 1998, she performed with Chicago’s famous improv comedy troupe, The Second City, for which she received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Revue in 1997. In 1999, Dratch joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL), where she showed her versatility as an actor through both impersonating famous figures and creating her own idiosyncratic characters, such as “Debbie Downer.” By the time she left the show in 2006, she had become one of SNL’s longest-running female cast members. She continued to make guest appearances as Amy Klobuchar until 2020. Dratch has made guest appearances on numerous television shows and in several movies, including 30 Rock (2006-2012), Sisters (2015), and Wine Country (2019). In 2012, she published a memoir entitled Girl Walks into a Bar. In 2022, Dratch made her Broadway debut in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.