--- description: Before there was 30 Rock, there was Dratch & Fey title: Tina Fey & Rachel Dratch Vintage Second City Show: Watch on YouTube image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch's Second City Show _Dratch & Fey_ Is Now Online by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2014 5:29 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2014 5:29 PM CUT It’s hard to recall a time when Tina Fey wasn’t filling our TV sets and movie screens with big laughs, but back in 1999, before _Saturday Night Live_ made her a household name and _Mean Girls_ [was the stuff of legend](http://time.com/67280/mean-girls-mythology/ "undefined") and _30 Rock_ GIFs filled Facebook, Fey was just another comic trying to make a name for herself in the comedy trenches. Thanks to the magical elves that post videos to YouTube, fans can travel back in time to witness the wonder of a two-woman show called _Dratch & Fey_, starring Fey and fellow _SNL_\-er Rachel Dratch. The show ran at both Second City and New York’s UCB Theater from 1999-2000, when both women were on the cusp of stardom. Dratch had joined the cast of _SNL_ and Fey had recently been appointed as the head writer of the show, but had not yet moved in front of the camera. The show itself, much like _SNL_, was a series of sketches woven together by nothing more than humor. In the clip posted to YouTube, the duo starts by riffing on “theater as social tool” with Dratch becoming Edwina Garth Burnham, a woman’s rights pioneer, while Fey adopts the personality of a modern woman exploring her sexuality. Naturally, big laughs ensue. The quality of the video isn’t great, as it appears to have been ripped from a VHS tape, but when you get nearly an hour of vintage Dratch and Fey given free rein on stage, you don’t look a YouTube gift horse in the mouth. You just watch. (via [Splitsider](http://splitsider.com/2014/07/tina-fey-and-rachel-dratchs-old-second-city-show-dratch-fey-is-now-online/ "undefined")) **MORE:** [Watch Tina Fey and Jerry Seinfeld Go on a Coffee Run Together](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/31/tina-fey-jerry-seinfeld-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee/ "undefined") **MORE**: [Watch Tina Fey Throw Punches in This Is Where I Leave You Trailer](http://time.com/124751/this-is-where-i-leave-you-trailer/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3030325/tina-fey-rachel-dratch-second-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3030325/tina-fey-rachel-dratch-second-city/"},"headline":"Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch's Second City Show Dratch & Fey Is Now Online","datePublished":"2014-07-24T17:29:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:47:59.460Z","description":"Before there was 30 Rock, there was Dratch & Fey","url":"https://time.com/3030325/tina-fey-rachel-dratch-second-city/","keywords":["Television","tina fey","Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3030325/tina-fey-rachel-dratch-second-city/","name":"Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch's Second City Show Dratch & Fey Is Now Online"}}]}] ```