Sarah Cooper (author)  Sarah Anne Cooper (born 1977) is an American author and comedian based in New York City. Her first book, "100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings", was published on October 4, 2016. Her second book, "How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings", was published on October 30, 2018. She has written for the animated TV series "Science!" Cooper is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants and was herself still born in Jamaica but in Rockville, Maryland, where her family had moved in 1980. Her father worked as an electrical engineer for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in nearby Washington and her mother in the human resources department of a consulting company. Cooper was already interested in the show business as a teenager and originally intended to study theater. However following the wishes of her parents she first pursued a degree outside the show business and earned degrees in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park and in Digital Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cooper began performing standup comedy in Atlanta, and later accepted an offer to work as a user experience designer for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. While there, she continued to write and perform standup and met her now-husband, Jeff Palm, who was an engineer on Google Docs. In 2014, she wrote a blog post called "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" that went viral with 5 million views. Later that year, she left Google to pursue writing and comedy fulltime. In spring 2020, Cooper began publishing a series of videos online in which she lip-synched comments by Donald Trump on the topic of potential cures for the 2019 coronavirus disease. Cooper's first viral satire features her lip-synching to a minute of audio from the April 23 press briefing during which Trump suggested that inserting light into the body and injecting household cleaners might have uses for treating coronavirus infections. She has subsequently produced several other similarly-themed videos. The videos are successes on social media platforms, and were reviewed as examples of how comedians could perform political satire without any audience, which was particularly germane due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The videos are also noted as being examples of extremely economical political satire, since Cooper's videos are structured around an unedited voice clip of a politician speaking.