AP Breakthrough Entertainer Sarah Cooper: TikTok to Netflix In the span of a few months, comedian Sarah Cooper went from making TikTok videos in her living room to filming her own hour-long Netflix special alongside Helen Mirren and Jon HammLOS ANGELES -- The video couldn’t have been simpler: A woman in her apartment, lip-syncing audio of President Donald Trump as he expounded on possible coronavirus treatments. Comedian Sarah Cooper lip-synced the president and demonstrated “injecting” herself with a cleaning spray, posting the 49-second video, “How to Medical,” on TikTok in April. A mere four months later Cooper was filming her own hour-long Netflix special alongside anyone’s dream guest stars: Helen Mirren, Marisa Tomei, Ben Stiller, Jon Hamm, Winona Ryder, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph. “Six months ago I was in my living room making a TikTok,” Cooper recently told The Associated Press, which is naming her one of its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020. “Sarah really epitomizes somebody whose voice and a sense of humor and talent we want to help bring to the world,” Rudolph said.

Source: ABC News December 17, 2020 14:03 UTC