Listen to Rachel’s radio interview from this morning’s “Austin and Alana in the AM” -

This must be the Adam Sandler film Rachel is referring to, when she says she is “in another movie with him this summer”.

Funny People (2009).

YouTube - Tribeca Videos - My Life in Ruins.

The incense is burning. A sitar CD is playing. And Rachel Dratch is ready to see her future. Sitting in a curtained-off room at the back of a New Age bookstore in Venice, Calif., the Saturday Night Live alum watches as a psychic deals a deck of playing cards. Since this is Los Angeles, he immediately starts talking showbiz. ”Someone’s getting an award — yes, for sure. Mmm-hmm. Is it an Emmy?” He turns over three aces in a row. ”The way these came together like that,” he says. ”That’s like a star. So you have star quality!” Dratch leans over to the reporter sitting beside her and asks in an exaggerated whisper, ”You get that?”

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Rachel Dratch: What Went Wrong? | The Jacksonville Observer.

FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT: Former “Saturday Night Live” star Rachel Dratch certainly gets points for fearlessness — a trait attributed to her by colleagues — in going over the nitty-gritty details of what’s gone wrong with her career in the issue of Entertainment Weekly about to hit the stands.

The funny lady was replaced by Jane Krakowski in “30 Rock” at the network’s behest, though Tina Fey had written the part expressly for Dratch. There was talk of Krakowski having been put in at least partly because of her looks … and talk of Dratch having, maybe, overdone it with playing unattractive characters like her Debbie Downer. Dratch admits now that she wonders whether all that good old-fashioned lack of vanity hurt her. “People see me and they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re so much prettier in real life!’… And I’m like, ‘Well, thanks.’ It’s definitely narrowed the opportunities, which is a bummer because … I want a job!”

Other projects failed to gel. Adding insult to injury, last year’s Vanity Fair “Women in Comedy” issue showcased Dratch’s close friends — Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph — but barely mentioned her. “That was right there in print,” she tells EW. “You’re not in the gang anymore.” She talked about feeling singed by her omission — but it only led to more embarrassing headlines.

The good news for the likeable performer is that she seems to be in the midst of a turnaround, with her well-reviewed stage role in “Minsky’s” and her part in Nia Vardalos’ “My Life in Ruins” romantic comedy. Here’s hoping.