Sarah Cooper’s Trump Lip-Syncs Turned Pandemic Boredom Into a Career Catapult

Adweek's Digital Creator of the Year's viral videos led to a Netflix special and CBS development deal

Sarah Cooper's Netflix comedy special airs this month. Mindy Tucker

October 25, 2020

It wasn’t even a year ago that Sarah Cooper seriously thought about once again setting aside her dream of making it big as a comedian and heading back into corporate America for a steady gig. Then the former UX designer at Google downloaded TikTok at the height of the pandemic and hit record.

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@kelseymsutton kelsey.sutton@adweek.com Kelsey Sutton is the streaming editor at Adweek, where she covers the business of streaming television.