Sarah Cooper Celebrates the End of Trump
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On Donald Trump’s last full day as president, comedian Sarah Cooper looks back and her life-changing year lip-syncing him on TikTok and ahead to her own post-Trump ambitions in comedy. We also talk about the early stand-up material she now worries might get her “canceled,” the surreal experience of watching Trump talk about her on Fox News, how she got Helen Mirren to recreate the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape for her Netflix special and a lot more—including whether she’s really done with Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know about you, but I'll never be able to hear clips like this one without picturing |
| 0:05.3 | my guest on today's show. |
| 0:07.1 | And I tested very positively in another sense. |
| 0:12.5 | So this morning, yeah, I tested positively toward negative, right? |
| 0:16.5 | So, no, I tested perfectly this morning. |
| 0:23.2 | Meaning, meaning I tested negative. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the last laugh. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and it's finally happening. |
| 0:40.5 | Today is Donald Trump's last full day in office, and Sarah Cooper is here. |
| 0:47.9 | I've been wanting to have Sarah on the podcast for a while now, and for some reason, this week just seemed like the perfect timing. |
| 1:01.0 | If you're listening to this, I'm sure you are familiar with Sarah, who really came out of nowhere last spring to become one of the most significant political comedy voices of the Trump era, without using her actual voice. Her hilarious lip sync videos of Trump's most absurd moments have racked up millions and millions of views on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram. And last October, just a week before the 2020 election, |
| 1:14.6 | she released a wildly ambitious star-studded Netflix special called Everything's Fine. |
| 1:20.5 | That special offered some hints about where her comedy might be headed post-Trump, |
| 1:25.1 | and she shared more details about what's to come in this conversation. |
| 1:29.1 | We also talked about how she got here, the surreal experience of becoming super famous during a |
| 1:34.9 | pandemic, and a lot more. All right, here's me with Sarah Cooper. |
| 1:42.1 | Okay, we're recording. |
| 1:44.9 | Cool. |
| 1:47.1 | Well, thank you so much for doing this. |
| 1:51.0 | I've been wanting to have you on for a while, and I'm really excited that we're doing it now because as people are hearing this, it's Donald Trump's last full day in office, |
| 1:57.1 | which is really a long time coming. |
| 1:59.0 | So how are you feeling now that this is really |
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