Rachel Dratch Needs Work And She Deserves To Work, So Why Isn’t She Working? April 7, 2008

Rachel Dratch left Saturday Night Live two years ago and then she was replaced on 30 Rock. The comedian is now working on, uh, dur…

“Maybe you can tell me,” Dratch told NY Mag at a Smart People screening on March 31. “I know you’re supposed to come up with fake stuff you’re doing. But honestly, I’m not doing much.”

Of the downtime since SNL, Dratch said: “It’s starting to get old. I’m starting to go crazy. I’m ready for a job.”

Being excluded from Vanity Fair’s recent “Queens of Comedy” issue didn’t help matters either. “Dude, that was a dark day,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh, there’s everyone I worked with’.”

Dratch, who provided me with many laughs as Debbie Downer on SNL and Spencer’s girlfriend on The King Of Queens, isn’t picky about her next gig either.

“I’d work in a black-box theater company at this point,” she said. “I’d work with George W.”