Last night, we watched the Sarah Cooper special on Netflix. As everyone knows already, her Trump lipsyncs border on the profound. Anna Deveare Smith and yes, I’ll say it, even Charlie Chaplin comes to my mind when I see them. After I stop laughing, that is.
In the rest of the special, we get an amazing number of cameos, from Whoopi Goldberg to Helen Mirren (!). The meta-message I took away was that these established performers were personally thanking Sarah. She came out of nowhere during a time when they (and we) were all beyond despair, and made us all laugh together.
We also hear Cooper’s real voice and can see a whole different set of mannerisms. This persona is disarming, endearing, and also poignant — a great a joy to watch! Really, it shouldn’t have taken a pandemic for Sarah Cooper to find an audience but let’s see more of her, soon.