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Sarah Cooper
BornSarah Anne Cooper
1977 (age 46–47)[1][2]
Jamaica[3]
OccupationAuthor, comedian
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Georgia Institute of Technology
Years active2014-present
Spouse
Jeff Palm
​
(m. 2015)​
[4]
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2006–present (SC)
2014–present (TCR)
Genres
  • Comedy
  • commentary
Subscribers169 thousand (SC)
5.33 thousand (TCR)[5]
Total views16.74 million (SC)
380.71 thousand (TCR)[5]
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 14 July 2020
Website
sarahcpr.com

Sarah Anne Cooper[4] (born 1977[4][2]) is an American author and comedian based in New York City. Her first book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, was published on October 4, 2016.[6] Her second book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings, was published on October 30, 2018.[7][8] She has written for the animated TV series Science![9] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cooper began uploading videos of herself lip synching statements made by Donald Trump.

Early life and education

Cooper was born in Jamaica in 1977. Her family moved to Rockville, Maryland, in 1980.[10] Her father worked as an electrical engineer for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in nearby Washington[4] and her mother in the human resources department of a consulting company.[10] Cooper was already interested in show business as a teenager and originally intended to study theater.[10] However, following the wishes of her parents, she first pursued a degree outside the show business and earned degrees in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park and in Digital Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.[2][10]

Career

Cooper began performing standup comedy in Atlanta, and later accepted an offer to work as a user experience designer for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.[2] While there, she continued to write and perform standup and met her now-husband, Jeff Palm, who was an engineer on Google Docs.[4] In 2014, she wrote a blog post called "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" that went viral with five million views.[2] Later that year, she left Google to pursue writing and comedy fulltime.[7]

Online videos

In spring 2020, Cooper began publishing a series of videos on Tik Tok in which she lip synched comments by Donald Trump on the topic of potential cures for the 2019 coronavirus.[11] Cooper's first viral satire features her lip synching to a minute of audio from the April 23 press briefing during which Trump suggested that inserting light into the body and injecting household cleaners would be an effective method for treating the coronavirus.[12] She has subsequently produced several other similarly themed videos and has posted them on other social media as well.[13] The videos are popular and have gone viral. They are viewed as examples of how comedians can perform political satire without any audience, which was particularly germane due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.[14] The videos are also noted as being examples of extremely economical political satire, since Cooper's videos are structured around an unedited voice clip of a politician speaking.[15]

Works and publications

  • 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing (2016). ISBN 9781449476052. OCLC 944463172.
  • Draw What Success Looks Like. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing (2016). ISBN 9781449476069. OCLC 944470964.
  • How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing (2018). ISBN 9781449476076. OCLC 1028881934.

References

  1. ^ Hesse, Monica. "Women on TikTok have cracked the code on how to satirize Trump". The Washington Post. Fred Ryan. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Abramovitch, Seth (April 26, 2018). "How to Appear Smart in Meetings Without Really Trying". The Red Bulletin. p. 1.
  3. ^ Cooper, Sarah (March 12, 2020). "I'm sorry mompic.twitter.com/UCjp4oyfnq". @sarahcpr. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Sarah Cooper and Jeffrey Palm". The New York Times. March 1, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "About Sarah Cooper". YouTube.
  6. ^ Todd, Sarah (September 27, 2016). "Nod more, and other absurd yet useful meeting tips from a former Google manager". Quartz. p. 1.
  7. ^ a b Johnson, Eric (January 10, 2018). "For comedian Sarah Cooper, a job at Google was Plan B". Recode. p. 1.
  8. ^ Jacobs, Emma (October 24, 2018). "Sarah Cooper: 'The workplace is a rich seam for comedy'". The Financial Times. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  9. ^ "Science". IMDB. p. 1.
  10. ^ a b c d Sheila Marikar: Sarah Cooper’s Non-Threatening Leadership Skills for Women!. The New Yorker, March 4, 2019
  11. ^ Itzkoff, Dave (May 5, 2020). "Jerry Seinfeld Is Making Peace With Nothing: He's 'Post-Show Business'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  12. ^ Noor, Poppy (May 14, 2020). "The comedian going viral for lip-syncing Trump: 'People really hate him'". The Guardian. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  13. ^ Weber, Peter (May 15, 2020). "Watch comedian Sarah Cooper perform Trump's comments about the bad optics of COVID-19 testing". Yahoo News. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  14. ^ Li, Shirley (May 8, 2020). "Sarah Cooper Has Mastered the Trump Joke". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  15. ^ Daley, Lauren (May 7, 2020). "Watch this comedian for a needed laugh". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
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