Sarah Cooper (comedian)

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Sarah Cooper, performing at the 2013 Cape Fear Comedy Festival

Sarah Anne Cooper (* 1977 in Jamaica ) is an American author and comedian . In spring 2020, she became known worldwide for her lip-synchronized Trump parodies.

life and work

Cooper is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. She was born in Jamaica before her family in the 1980 United States to Rockville (Maryland) moved, where her father as an electrical engineer for public transport operators in neighboring Washington, DC ( Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority worked). As a teenager, Cooper was interested in show business and initially wanted to study theater studies. However, at her parents' request, she studied for a career outside of show business, earning a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then a master's in digital design from the Georgia Institute of Technology .

Cooper began doing stand-up comedy in Atlanta while she was at the Georgia Institute of Technology . After completing her studies, however, she first worked for Yahoo in San Francisco , then quit after a while to try her hand at full-time comedian. However, after this first attempt was unsuccessful, she took a job at Google . There she met her future husband, software engineer Jeff Palm, whom she married in 2015. After a blog post she wrote (“Ten Tricks to Be Smart at Meetings”) attracted greater attention in 2014, she left Google and wrote a book on the subject, which she published in 2016. This was followed by more books and again appearances in stand-up comedy. She also designed the website TheCooperReview.com and wrote a column for the Financial Times . After moving to New York City with her husband in 2018 , she and Nikki MacCallum hosted the comedy show You're So Brave at the Lantern Comedy Club in New York.

In spring 2020 during the Corona lockdown in New York, Cooper began to deal with the TikTok platform and was inspired there by the lip-synchronized videos for her Trump parodies. These quickly found an audience of millions on the Internet and made them known worldwide. Comedian colleagues like Ben Stiller , Jerry Seinfeld , Jimmy Fallon and Ellen DeGeneres were enthusiastic, Cooper was then interviewed many times about their parodies and signed a contract with the William Morris Agency .

From September 2020 Cooper will have its own show with political skits and celebrity guests on Netflix with the title "Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine".

Books

  • 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings . Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4494-7605-2
  • Draw What Success Looks Like . Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4494-7606-9
  • How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings . Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4494-7607-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johanna Adorján : "There is a little Trump in every man". In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 6, 2020 (interview)
  2. ^ Sarah Cooper and Jeffrey Palm . New York Times, March 1, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Bianca Blei: Sarah Cooper: The comedian who borrows Trump's voice . Der Standard, May 22, 2020
  4. ↑ a b Sheila Marikar: Sarah Cooper's Non-Threatening Leadership Skills for Women! . The New Yorker, March 4, 2019
  5. ↑ Emma Jacobs: Sarah Cooper: 'The workplace is a rich seam for comedy' Financial Times, October 24, 2018
  6. ↑ You're So Brave Comedy Show. on eventbrite.com (accessed July 1, 2020)
  7. ↑ Chris Gardner: TikTok Trump Impersonator Becomes Hollywood Commodity: "It's Been Insane" . The Hollywood Reporter, June 26, 2020
  8. ↑ Trump parodist gets show on Netflix. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Sarah Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamaica