For Variety's New York issue, sarahcpr reflects on the past few months: 'I’ve gone from basically making TikToks at home to talking to Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph every day'
? Her viral videos, set to the soundtrack of the president’s own words, have become ubiquitous during the pandemic. Every time the 42-year-old New York comedian uploads a new clip satirizing the commander in chief, she generates tens of millions of viewers on TikTok and Twitter.
For most of us, Cooper’s channeling of Trump has been one of the only good things to emerge from the pandemic. Inspired by the daily White House coronavirus briefings, where the president rambled from one non sequitur to the next, Cooper quickly became a household name. Her sarcastic expressions and maniacal mannerisms shed a parodic light on how little the leader of the free world was doing as thousands of Americans died.
For Rudolph, the decision to work with Cooper was a no-brainer. The former “Saturday Night Live” actor, who recently won an Emmy for impersonating Kamala Harris, jokes that Cooper’s videos are “the only way I can absorb Trump.” There’s at least one reason Cooper hasn’t taken her foot off the gas since March: Her comedy special is her first chance, post-viral fame, to prove that her humor extends beyond her Trump pantomimes. She’s had bouts with viral success before .
Although Cooper’s career has been entangled with Trump in a weird Harry-Potter-and-Voldemort-like fashion, she hopes he’ll be booted from the Oval Office in January. “I want him to go away for so many reasons,” she says. “For my sanity, this isn’t something that I want to do for the rest of my life.”
“I always turned to humor as a defense mechanism to ease tension and make sure everybody’s feeling good,” she remembers of her childhood. “I just love when people feel comfortable and happy. I was always making my family laugh, and they’re making me laugh.”
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