Sarah Cooper
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Years active | 2014–present | ||||||
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Years active | 2006–present (SC) 2014–present (TCR) | ||||||
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Subscribers | 330,000 (SC) 8,310 (TCR)[1] | ||||||
Total views | 39.68 million (SC) 619,911 (TCR)[1] | ||||||
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Last updated: March 19, 2021 | |||||||
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Sarah Anne Cooper (born December 19, 1977)
During the
Early life and education
Cooper was born in
Career
Early career
Cooper began performing stand-up comedy in Atlanta while she was working as a visual designer at
Her first book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, a satirical version of a self-help book, was published on October 4, 2016.[12][9] Her "colouring and activity book", Draw What Success Looks Like, was published in the same month.[13] Her third book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings, was published on October 30, 2018.[11][14] It is subtitled "Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women", and contains satirical advice for women such as "Pepper your emails with exclamation marks and emojis.... Your lack of efficient communication will make you seem more approachable."[15] Her books were not commercially successful.[9] At the end of 2019, five years after she had resigned from Google, Cooper was considering quitting her comedy career due to lack of success.[9]
Satirical videos
In spring 2020, Cooper began publishing a series of videos on
In an interview with
She was named Digital Creator of the Year by Adweek,[28] and was nominated in the "Creator of the Year" and "Comedy" categories for the 10th Streamy Awards.[29]
Television
In the wake of the popularity of her TikTok videos, Cooper was invited to appear on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[30] She has also appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,[31] and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,[32] and as a guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live![33] She played Inigo Montoya in Home Movie: The Princess Bride, a fan film recreation of The Princess Bride, which premiered on Quibi in June 2020.[34]
In October 2020, the Netflix special Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine was released, produced by Maya Rudolph and directed by Natasha Lyonne.[35] It features Cooper as the host of a fictional morning news program. The show is structured around spoofs of news segments, interviews, and commercials, and it incorporates a series of sketches featuring appearances from celebrities including Jon Hamm, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Mirren, Ben Stiller, and Marisa Tomei.[36] Cooper's character is a news anchor who struggles to retain her sanity and positive attitude despite the dramatic upheaval that she is reporting on, which is a commentary on the experience of observing the political, economic, and pandemic-related disruptions throughout the world in 2020 (as is the sarcasm of the title, Everything's Fine).[36]
Reviews for the show were generally positive, with most critics arguing that its satire was insightful but not uniformly successful.
It was announced in August 2020 that Cooper and Cindy Chupack would be producing a comedy show for CBS based on How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings.[40] The pilot was not picked up to series.[41]
Cooper was listed as one of the "Breakout Stars" of 2020 by Vogue and The New York Times,[42][43] and as one of five Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020 by the Associated Press.[44]
In August 2021, Bleecker Street and Stage 6 Films picked up the worldwide rights to James Ponsoldt's coming of age film Summering, starring Cooper alongside Megan Mullally.[45][46]
On October 3, 2023 Cooper published her memoir Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation.
Personal life
Cooper married Jeff Palm, a senior software designer for Google, in February 2015.[5] They divorced in 2021.[47]
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.
- Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings 2021 Day-to-Day Calendar. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing (2020). ISBN 9781524858124
- Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation. New York: Dutton, (2023), ISBN 9780593473184
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Note(s) | Ref(s). |
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2020 | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | guest | [30] | |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | guest | [31] | ||
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2 episodes) | guest | [48][49] | ||
Home Movie: The Princess Bride | Inigo Montoya | Quibi | [34] | |
Have You Been Paying Attention? | guest | [50] | ||
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | guest host | [33] | ||
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | guest | [32] | ||
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine | Self | Netflix | [37] | |
The View | guest | [51] | ||
Late Night with Seth Meyers | guest | [52] | ||
2021 | HouseBroken | Lenny, guest | 1 episode | [53] |
2022 | Summering | Karna | Film | [45][46] |
2023 | Survival of the Thickest | Sydney | 1 episode, Netflix | [54] |
TBA | Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story |
TBA | Filming | [55] |
Awards and nominations
Award | Year | Category | Result | Ref. |
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Adweek Hot List | 2020 | Digital Creator of the Year | Won | [28] |
Streamy Awards | 2020 | Creator of the Year | Nominated | [29][56] |
Streamy Awards | 2020 | Subject Award: Comedy | Won | [29][56] |
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- ^ OCLC 1349461077.
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- ^ a b Li, Shirley (May 8, 2020). "Sarah Cooper Has Mastered the Trump Joke". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
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External links
- Official website
- Sarah Cooper at IMDb
- Sarah Cooper on TikTok
- The Cooper Review
- How to President (April 24, 2020) playlist on YouTube