Sarah Cooper (author)

Sarah Anne Cooper[3] (born c. 1978[3]) 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.[4] Her second book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings, was published on October 30, 2018.[5][6] She has written for the animated TV series Science![7]

Sarah Cooper
BornSarah Anne Cooper
1978 (age 41–42)[1]
Jamaica[2]
OccupationAuthor, comedian
ResidenceNew York City, New York, U.S.
Years active2014-present
SpouseJeff Palm (m. 2015)[3]
Website
sarahcpr.com

Education

Cooper has degrees in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park and in Digital Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.[8]

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.[8] While there, she continued to write and perform standup and met her now-husband, Jeff Palm, who was an engineer on Google Docs.[3] In 2014, she wrote a blog post called "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" that went viral with 5 million views.[8] Later that year, she left Google to pursue writing and comedy fulltime.[5]

Online videos

In spring 2020, Cooper began publishing a series of videos online in which she lip-synched comments by Donald Trump on the topic of potential cures for the 2019 coronavirus disease.[9] 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 might have uses for treating coronavirus infections.[10] She has subsequently produced several other similarly-themed videos.[11] The videos are successes on social media platforms, and were reviewed as examples of how comedians could perform political satire without any audience, which was particularly germane due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.[12] 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.[13]

Works and publications
  • Cooper, Sarah (2016). 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 9781449476052. OCLC 944463172.
  • Cooper, Sarah (2016). Draw What Success Looks Like. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 9781449476069. OCLC 944470964.
  • Cooper, Sarah (2018). How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. 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 11 June 2020.
  2. Cooper, Sarah (2020-03-12). "I'm sorry mompic.twitter.com/UCjp4oyfnq". @sarahcpr. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  3. "Sarah Cooper and Jeffrey Palm". The New York Times. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  4. Todd, Sarah (September 27, 2016). "Nod more, and other absurd yet useful meeting tips from a former Google manager". Quartz. p. 1.
  5. Johnson, Eric (January 10, 2018). "For comedian Sarah Cooper, a job at Google was Plan B". Recode. p. 1.
  6. Jacobs, Emma (24 October 2018). "Sarah Cooper: 'The workplace is a rich seam for comedy'". The Financial Times. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  7. "Science". IMDB. p. 1.
  8. Abramovitch, Seth (April 26, 2018). "How to Appear Smart in Meetings Without Really Trying". The Red Bulletin. p. 1.
  9. Itzkoff, Dave (5 May 2020). "Jerry Seinfeld Is Making Peace With Nothing: He's 'Post-Show Business'". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  10. Noor, Poppy (14 May 2020). "The comedian going viral for lip-syncing Trump: 'People really hate him'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  11. Weber, Peter (15 May 2020). "Watch comedian Sarah Cooper perform Trump's comments about the bad optics of COVID-19 testing". Yahoo News. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  12. Li, Shirley (8 May 2020). "Sarah Cooper Has Mastered the Trump Joke". The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  13. Daley, Lauren (7 May 2020). "Watch this comedian for a needed laugh". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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