Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper

Sarah Anne Cooper is a Jamaican-American author and comedian based in New York City. Her first two books, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and Draw What Success Looks Like were published in 2016. Her third book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, was published in 2018.

About Sarah Cooper in brief

Summary Sarah CooperSarah Anne Cooper is a Jamaican-American author and comedian based in New York City. Her first two books, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and Draw What Success Looks Like were published in 2016. Her third book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, was published in 2018. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cooper began uploading videos of herself lip syncing statements made by Donald Trump. The success of these videos led to appearances on several talk shows, and in October 2020 her show Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine premiered on Netflix. In August 2020, Cooper and Cindy Chupack would be producing a comedy show for CBS based on How to be Successful without Hurting men’s feelings.

She was named Creator of the Year by Digital Adweek and was nominated in the 10th Wordy Awards for the Wordy Streamy categories for the 2010-11 year. In the wake of the popularity of her videos on Tik Tok, Cooper was invited to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to talk about the 2020 Democratic National Convention. She is married to Jeff Palm, who was an engineer on Google Docs, Sheets and Slides before she left Google to pursue writing and comedy full-time. She has said that she would analyze Stephen Colbert’s monologues from The Colbert Report to understand what made them humorous. Cooper was born in Jamaica in 1977 and her family moved to Rockville, Maryland, in 1980.