Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

If you are a fan of absurdist comedy, then you will enjoy Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine. A fictional morning show allows her to provide short segments of 2020 humor that includes irrational and absurd situations which actually occurred and said by the president at the time. Topics included satires of COVID vaccine, Karens, QAnon with segments of the lip syncing that Sarah was known for: the president saying the most bizarre things made tolerable because she is doing the voice. Especially ironic is Sarah as DJT and Helen Mirren as Billy Bush in the Access Hollywood tape. Watching this makes you really wonder how any woman can support that party.

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

The fact that there was so discernible plot with this fictionalized version of Sarah Cooper made this really difficult to watch. The cameos were mostly hit or miss, and felt gratuitous and not well thought-out. Sarah's bit with Helen Mirren was IMPECCABLE and the reason why I rated this so high. The special is worth watching just for that bit and how perfectly unsettling it is.

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!