Natasha Lyonne will produce and perform alongside Maya Rudolph.
Sarah Cooper is about to learn how to be diverse.
The writer and cabaret artist who erupted during the TikTok pandemic for her Trump personalities, including her viral “How medical?“video, has landed a variety specifically at Netflix.
Title Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine, the special will contain vignettes that concentrate on issues related to politics, race, gender, class and other topics. An array of short interviews and sketches with special guests will also be part of the special. The one-off will premiere on a date to be determined in the fall.
Natasha Lyonne (Netflix’s Russian pop, orange is the new black) will direct the Cooper special and exec products alongside Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens via her Animal Pictures banner. Paula Pell, Chris Burns (Cooper’s manager) of AGI Entertainment and Dan Powell of Irony Point will also be credited as EPs.
Cooper recently signed with WME for representation and, since her first video went viral in April, has attracted the interest of studios, streamers, production companies and publishers all with offerings in a variety of genres including features, script and unwritten TV, podcasts and books.
Cooper’s first video, “How to Medical,” airs April 23 and has been viewed more than 21 million times on TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. The 50-second video features Cooper talking about audio of Trump’s proposed COVID-19 cures of UV light and disinfectant.
A series of other Trump videos, including How to Bible, have also each gone viral. She has appeared on talk shows during the day and late at night and has been featured in major publications in the US. On Tuesday, she filled in as host The Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Before How to Medical, Cooper was a writer and correspondent on the Stephen Colbert-produced CBS All Access pilot Old News. She wrote the best-selling book 100 tricks to look smart in meetings en How to be successful without feelings for men. She will next write a modern, comic take on a Dale Carnegie book for Audible Originals.
Cooper is reprized by WME, AGI and Morris Yorn. Animal Pictures is with WME and 3 Arts. Pell is with WME, Narrative and Hansen Jacobson.
