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🗓️ 28 June 2022
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Sarah Cooper became famous using only her face to lip-sync Donald Trump. Now, in her new audiobook, all she has to work with is her voice. In her return to the podcast, Cooper reflects on the “craziest” few years of her life, from having “no idea” what she was doing on her own Netflix special to guest-hosting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ before ever performing stand-up on TV to landing a role in her comedy hero Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming Pop-Tart movie ‘Unfrosted.’ Cooper also reveals the right-wing politician she recently tried lip-syncing and why she will “never” imitate Donald Trump again.
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0:00.0 | My guest this week became internet famous using only her face to lip sync Donald Trump's most absurd moments. |
0:08.1 | Now, with her new audiobook, she is finally sharing her real voice with the world. |
0:13.9 | Early one day in the mid-2000s when I was in my late 20s, I was walking onto the subway. |
0:19.9 | I was completely lost in thought, probably coming up |
0:22.4 | with some brilliant idea for the future of the internet, something I was going to call chat snap. |
0:28.1 | When out of nowhere, this guy gets in my face and yells, smile, beautiful! I was startled and |
0:35.0 | annoyed, and I scowled and rolled my eyes, because I'd already been told |
0:39.5 | to smile by two other guys that day and several hundred other people in my lifetime. |
0:44.8 | And I was sick of it. |
0:46.5 | And I guess he saw me roll my eyes, because the next thing I know, he's yelling, |
0:51.0 | Hey, you should appreciate the attention because one day you're going to be old |
0:54.8 | and no one's even going to look at you, which gave me a great movie idea. It's castaway, |
1:01.2 | but instead of Tom Hanks, it's a female lead, and instead of disappearing after a plane crash, |
1:06.4 | she disappears after she turns 50. She's still walking around amongst everyone, but no one even sees her. |
1:15.4 | It was a fun way to start my day whatever I was doing at the time. I have a bad memory. Except when it |
1:22.7 | comes to all the men who've told me to smile. I remember all of them, including you, Dale Carnegie. |
1:35.2 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was an excerpt from |
1:41.3 | Let's Catch Up Soon, how I won Friends and Influenced People Against My Will, |
1:46.5 | the new Audible original book from the one and only, Sarah Cooper. |
1:50.8 | If you're a loyal listener of this podcast, you may know that this is actually Sarah's second |
1:55.3 | time as a guest. I first spoke to her on Trump's very last day in office back in January 2021, when she was |
2:02.8 | still riding the wave of viral success that came with her TikTok lip sinks of the former |
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