Writer and comedian Sarah lands Neflix comedy special
The 40-plus Jamaican-born comedian has gained over two million Twiter followers as well as celebrity fans such as Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld
Sarah Cooper, the US comedian whose uncanny lip-synch impersonations of President Donald Trump have gained millions of fans worldwide, will star in her own Neflix special, the streaming giant said on Wednesday.
“Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine” will be released this fall and feature a variety of satirical political sketches and other vignetes as well as famous guests. It will be executive produced by Maya Rudolph, whose own Emmy-nominated impressions of Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live” have been widely shared since Harris was confirmed as the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate.
Cooper, a former Google employee, shot to fame during the pandemic by lampooning some of Trump’s most infamous outbursts — including his suggestion that injecting disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus.
That 49-second clip — entitled “How to medical” — saw Cooper lip-synch along to Trump’s proposal that bringing “light inside the body” might help combat the disease, while emulating the president’s power-posturing body language.
It has been viewed over 22 million times on Twiter alone.
The 40-something Jamaican-born comedian calls Trump her “head writer,” and has gained over two million Twiter followers as well as celebrity fans such as former president Barack Obama, comedians Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and “Hamilton” creator Lin-manuel Miranda.
Cooper is also the author of best-selling books “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” and “How to be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings.”
The variety special will be directed by “Russian Doll” star Natasha Lyonne. Cooper became popular in April ater she began posting short videos on social media app Tiktok of herself lip syncing to remarks by Trump.
Cooper began her career by performing stand-up comedy while working at companies including Google and Yahoo. She has writen two books, including “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings,” and she appeared as a guest host of late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week.
Titled “Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine,” the writer and producer Natasha Lyonne is set to direct the production, and it will be executive produced by the comic-actor Maya Rudolph (who will herself be increasingly busy, reprising her role on “Saturday Night Live” as Senator Kamala Harris).
It’s just the latest — and biggest — feather in the cap of Cooper, who lives in New York with a sotware engineer husband whom she has kiddingly described as running out of patience with her Trump schtick. He “has to hear Donald Trump’s voice over and over again,” as she told Vanity Fair this summer. “I think he’s probably going to jump out the window at some point.”
Cooper also recently signed with the talent agency WME, appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon in June, and yesterday, even guest-hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”