Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

Sarah Cooper is very, very good at conveying a great deal of tumult with her facial expressions. What always sold her Trump lip-sync videos was her range of emotions which managed to comment on the insanity of her given material without changing a word or a beat. Indeed, the lip-synching segments of the special are the strongest bits- not because she is repeating herself but because Cooper is allowing herself to be as hilarious as she really is. The weakest bits are where Cooper is playing straight man to her funny guests.

The special is both helped and hurt by the parade of celebrity cameos. Helped because the celebrities (especially Maya Rudolph and Aubrey Plaza) are such a delight. Rudolph is particularly scene stealing. But on the whole they serve to detract from Cooper's comedic voice- never by outshining it, exactly, more by distracting from it. The tonal shifts should work better than they do- the almost stream of consciousness flow is Pythonesque in a way, but that just means this might have worked better as a 1/2 hour pilot for a new ensemble sketch show rather than an hour showcase for ostensibly one person.

All in all it is worth a watch, but I think we can expect better special from Sarah Cooper in the future and I do hope we get one!

Full disclosure, I am an independent who does not like Trump and think making fun of him is totally ok and should be done. However, I am first and foremost a comedy fan. Sarah Cooper is not funny. This special is not funny. It is cringe central. I gave it 1/10 because she made a name for herself without having any talent. She is paraded around and written about like there is no tomorrow but the comedy is non-existent. Just because someone is making fun of someone you despise does not mean you can sacrifice quality.

Have you ever wondered what they were thinking when they watched the takes during production? It seems they didn't, as surely they wouldn't have gone on. I would ask for those 50 minutes of my life back, but the whole year has been a total loss anyway.

I, like many, like cooper on Twitter and wholly agree with 8645 but this was odd to say the least. I get the premise, I get the satire, but this wasn't particularly funny or good. It had a couple moments that made me almost smile but other than that I watched it on my iPad at 1.5x speed so my time wasn't completely lost.

This affected, talentless, loud, unfunny person got a tv show thanks to one of the worst acts on TikTok (which says quite a lot) and proves that she really has nothing to offer. She also proves that surrounding yourself with big names and talented people doesn't really matter if you are as funny as a dead baby. There are so many funny women in the business and they decided to go with this one? I am shocked.. It would be more fun to stand in line at the DMV for four hours than to watch another minute of this buffet of turds