Sarah Cooper (comedian)
Sarah Cooper (comedian)
Cooper at The Corners in Brooklyn, New York.
In spring 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she became known for her viral Donald Trump lip-sync TikTok videos.[6]
Personal life
Her father was an engineer and her mother worked in human resources. Her family moved to Maryland, United States, from Jamaica in 1980 when she was three years old.
She married Jeff Palm on February 7, 2015, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They have a dog together named Stella who is a Cockapoo. Her Instagram handle is @stellacooperpalm.
Education
She has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in Economics and a Master's degree in Digital Design from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Career
Sarah Cooper
Cooper is a writer, comedian, speaker, and author.
She is based in New York and performs at comedy clubs all over the city.
She co-hosts a monthly standup comedy show with Nikki McCallum called "You're So Brave" at The Lantern Comedy Club.
It takes place every fourth Wednesday.[10]
Cooper has been featured on Kara Swisher's "Recode Decode" podcast, The New Yorker's Talk of the Town, The Times UK, The Washington Post, Forbes
She has published two books.
Her first book is titled 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying and was published on October 4 2016.[12] It is also available in German. Her second book is titled How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings and was published on October 30 2018.[8]
She has a calendar inspired by her first book that includes a different trick for each day.[9] She has also released a coloring and activity book titled Draw What Success Looks Like. She is currently working on a third book, which will be an auto-biographical take on Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.
All of her books were published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
She also runs a satirical blog called TheCooperReview.com.[13]
In 2019, she became a writer and correspondent for Old News, a CBS All Access pilot created by Opus Moreschi with executive producer Stephen Colbert.
She has also previously written for the animated TV series Science.
In spring 2020, during the global Coronavirus pandemic, Cooper posted a series of satirical TikTok videos where she lip-syncs to audio clips of Donald Trump.
Her first viral video features her lip syncing to a 1 minute audio clip from the April 23 2020 press briefing during which Donald Trump suggested that light and household cleaners might have uses for treating COVID-19 infections. She subsequently produced several other similarly themed videos.