Rachel Dratch on SNL, 30 Rock & Countess Luann Cabaret
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jess is joined by RACHEL DRATCH — beloved for her seven-season run on Saturday Night Live. Topics: Rachel's decades-long friendship with TINA FEY, her SNL casting story, being replaced by JANE KRAKOWSKI on 30 ROCK, and the surprise of discovering she was pregnant at 43. Plus: WINE COUNTRY, inspired by her real-life 50th birthday trip, and performing in COUNTESS LUANN's cabaret debut at 54 Below.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives, and I am here with one of the most beloved Saturday Night Live graduates I can think of. |
| 0:23.3 | Seven years on SNL, appearances on Broad City, 30 Rock, Tony nominee. |
| 0:29.1 | She is back on Broadway right now in Rocky Horror. |
| 0:32.7 | Let's just get into it. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, Rachel Tratch. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello. |
| 0:36.6 | How are you? Good. How are you? I'm so excited. I've been a fan |
| 0:40.9 | forever, literally since your first season on SNL. Thank you. Whatever. I'll bore you with my stories a little |
| 0:46.4 | later. So here's what we're going to talk about. So you have led a very interesting life. |
| 0:52.5 | We're going to get into all the SNL stuff. I want to hear going deep about your audition. I want to hear about we are going to touch on the 30 rock stuff. Okay. They always do. Listen, no, but we're going to do it right. Listen, don't worry. We are going to talk about 30 rock. I have a lot of questions about wine country. Okay. Actually, so I want to get into that. |
| 1:11.5 | But first, you are a dare I say, bravo-holic. |
| 1:15.2 | I am, yes. |
| 1:16.9 | Tell me everything. |
| 1:18.2 | Like, how did you get into the housewives? |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, man. |
| 1:22.7 | I don't even remember how long it's been, but for some reason I started watching at the beginning |
| 1:27.0 | and then Andy started having me reason I just started watching at the beginning and then |
| 1:28.7 | Andy started having me on What Shoppens Live and then it kind of like the house, then I got to, |
| 1:34.4 | then I got to meet a few of them. I don't know. I've met a lot of them. I've collected a lot of |
| 1:39.1 | them on my housewise baseball cards, I guess. Yeah. saw you oh my god i okay this is so funny |
| 1:47.1 | because i you know what i'm going to talk about the countess okay this is like i'm i'm ready to |
| 1:53.3 | like unleash about this no no not about the countess she was very nice she's really nice it was funny |
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