The commonly used phrase "Debbie Downer" actually originated in the iconic SNL sketch from 2004 with Rachel Dratch.

Dratch stopped by buddy Amy Poehler’sGood Hang podcast this week in one of the pod’s most hilarious episodes. With her usual side-splitting deadpan storytelling, Rachel Dratch explains the surprising ...

Apart from Chevy Chase, the most depressing character to come out of Saturday Night Live is probably Debbie Downer. The perpetually-miserable vibe-killer played by Rachel Dratch was first introduced ...

It’s been more than 20 years since Rachel Dratch first rolled out Debbie Downer during an episode of Saturday Night Live, and the character is so embedded in pop culture that you still hear everyday ...

The 'Saturday Night Live' alum met a real-life bummer — and sisters who taught her about the power of positive thinking — “in the judges of Costa Rica” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

SNL alum Rachel Dratch may have left the iconic late-night sketch show in 2006, but the Massachusetts native’s indelible characters remain some of the most memorable Saturday Night Live performances ...

Rachel Dratch says her therapist told her to go on vacation by herself — and it was on that solo trip to Costa Rica where she met people who inspired her iconic Saturday Night Live character Debbie ...