- With seven full season (at the end of this one) under her belt on Saturday Night Live (1975), she will be the longest running female cast member. She is also the first female cast member to turn forty while on the show.
- Graduated from Dartmouth College, class of 1988.
- Plays cello.
- Gave birth to a son, Eli Benjamin, on August 24, 2010. The father is her boyfriend John Wahl, a California-based consultant to natural foods businesses.
- The first person she did an impression of on Saturday Night Live (1975) was Calista Flockhart.
- At 5' feet even, she is the second shortest cast member to date on Saturday Night Live (1975), being 16 inches shorter than the tallest cast members: Chevy Chase, Kevin Nealon or Randy Quaid. Denny Dillon was the shortest cast member, standing only 4'11".
- She was awarded the 1997 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Paradigm Lost", at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- In 2018, she was the official celebrity spokeswoman for the Ruby Tuesday restaurant chain.
- She was awarded the 1998 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Promise Keepers, Losers Weepers", at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- Is an alumna of the Second City mainstage.
- Daughter of Elaine, a transportation director, and Paul Dratch, a radiologist.
- Older sister of Daniel Dratch.
- She is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
- On July 7th, 2010, it was announced that she is expecting her first child, due in September. The child's father was not named.
- She is a lifelong Democrat.
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