This is the 10% happier podcast, Dan Harris.

Heads up gang, we've got a handful of seats left for the meditation party retreat that

I'm doing with the 7A Salassi and Jeff Warren on October 13th through 15th at Omega, which

is in Rhineback, New York, almost sold out, so move fast.

There are plenty of tickets, however, left for the live stream.

If you can't make it in person, we'll put links in the show notes.

All right.

Now to today's episode, perhaps never have I had a guest mess with me as much as this

one in an awesome and hilarious way, of course.

So who is this guest?

Remember those videos that went viral during the pandemic, where a female comedian

lip-synced to Donald Trump, her impression of the former president, or maybe a better

way to describe it, would be her interpretive dance, seemed to perfectly capture the

inanity, the preening, and the duplicity of the man.

The comedian in question was Sarah Cooper, and those videos catapulted her to fame, which

turned out to be complicated.

She suddenly got pretty much everything she thought she wanted professionally.

She met her entertainment heroes.

She got a Netflix special, a role in a movie, and then she somehow developed an ill-advised

crush on Jerry Seinfeld, more on that in the interview.

However, all of this forced her to reckon with her complex past, which included growing

up in America as a Jamaican immigrant, a complicated relationship to race, a pair of

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