My Apologies....

... for saying Rachel would be on all week on AMC's "Celebrity Charades", when it turns out she wasnt on it at all. :( I wish I had had more info, but I simply didnt.

Well, if you ended up liking the shows, great! :)

I don't know what happened. Maybe for some reason she couldnt finish filming her segment and so they re-shot without her but left her in the promos? Just a guess. Everyone else they show in the promos were present and accounted for (from what I could tell).

edit to add: Peter Boyle and Dr. Joyce Brothers were apparently in the episode with her and they too were no-shows.

Stay Tuned, in case more episodes are being aired in the future.

Again, I am sorry for the inaccurate information. :-/

Rachel on "Celebrity Charades"!

Next week, Mon June 20 through Fri June 24th, AMC will be showing "Celebrity Charades". Rachel Dratch will be in one of the episodes. Not sure which one yet, but will update this as I find out.

Here is some info on next week's show:

AMC's "Celebrity Charades".

If anyone knows which episode she will be in, please let us know in comments. Otherwise, if you want to catch her, watch every one of them! ;) They all look fun!

edit to add: I think she might be in all the episodes, so best to watch them all. :)

"Her Minor Thing" debuts!

Rachel's new movie, "Her Minor Thing", is debuting this weekend - Friday June 10 and Sunday June 12, at the Seattle Film Festival!

And check out the "Her Minor Thing" website, for more information about the movie.

Rachel Hosts Fund-Raiser for Muscular Dystrophy

(from The Stamford Advocate)

SNL star hosts fund-raiser for muscular dystrophy

By Kerry Wills
Special Correspondent

June 5, 2005

NORWALK -- Live from Norwalk! It's Saturday night with Rachel Dratch!

Saturday Night Live's 2005 season ended last week, so Dratch, a player in the ensemble cast, contributed her star power last night to a fund-raiser to battle Duchenne muscular dystrophy at Cranbury Park's Gallagher Estate.

"At first, the idea was for me to teach improv," Dratch said. "But I said, 'It's going to be me and a bunch of drunk adults.'"

Instead of teaching guests how to be funny, Dratch showed some clips of her favorite vignettes from SNL and took questions.

Her favorite character to play? At the top was Debbie Downer, the sour-faced pessimist who repeatedly ruins conversations with depressing factoids on subjects such as global warming, melanoma and mad cow disease. Dratch created the character herself.

"I was having a conversation with a group of strangers," Dratch said. "Someone brought up 9/11. It sort of scrunched everyone up. That's how I thought of that character."

Asked whether any guest hosts were hard to work with, she said most are so nervous to be on the live show that they are polite.

"They're about to enter this huge frenzy," Dratch said.

A favorite guest of hers this year was Paul Giamatti of the film, "Sideways."

"He's so naturally funny," she said. "He's a true actor."

Not every guest is comfortable with SNL's fast-paced humor, she said. Academy Award-winning actors sometimes have trouble on the show.

"The people that do best sometimes are politicians or sports figures," Dratch said. "They just try to have fun. They're not trying to overthink it."

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Dear Debbie

Dear Debbie Downer....

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the glimpses into your life on Saturday Night Live! I have missed you, ever since I last saw you when you were at the Oscars with Hilary Swank and you made her night miserable; a Debbie-Downer speciality! ;p

I have been reading your blog, and I notice you don't talk much about work and family and all the things that make you tick.. that make you YOU. I want to know more about you! For instance:

Debbie Dining! Is she a pain in the ass, bugging the waiter every 2 seconds with "special requests"?

Debbie on a Date!

Debbie in the office. What does she do for a living?

Her family, too! Does she have family who are downers too? Or is her family all "Sweetness and Light" and she became disillusioned and fell for the dark side?

No, Debbie, they didnt show enough on SNL for us Debbie Devotees to really get to know you. I hope you will post more often on your blog. You are a very interesting study!

Love & Light,

A Debbie Devotee