-Sarah Cooper,
thank you so much
for being on our show,
"The Tonight Show."
I know it's from Zoom,
but I'm a big fan
and, man, you're
making me laugh.
-Well, I'm a big fan of yours.
I've been trying to get on
this show for a long time
to do stand-up, and now
here I am a guest
without even
leaving my house.
So this is incredible.
-Oh, my gosh.
I got to say I first
heard of you
from these TikTok videos
that you have been doing.
I think the first one I saw was
the medical one with the --
It was unbelievable.
Was that the first one you did?
-That wasn't
the first one I did.
That was the first kind of
longer one that I did,
but I had been experimenting
with being Trump
a little bit before that.
-We hit the body with
a tremendous --
whether it's ultraviolet
or just very powerful light.
And I think you said
that hasn't been checked,
but you're going to test it.
And then I said, supposing
you brought the light
inside the body,
which you can do
either through the skin
or in some other way.
So it would be interesting
to check that.
So that you're going to have
to use medical doctors with,
but it sounds --
it sounds interesting to me.
-It's the funniest thing.
How did you come up
with the idea for it
and like where did it start?
-Well, I was in quarantine
and I was like,
how do I stay relevant
and figure out TikTok
and see what the kids are doing
on this TikTok thing.
And I got on there and I tried
to do, you know, this --
I tried to do the dance.
-Yeah, yeah,
you hit the -- yeah.
-I couldn't do it.
Yeah, I couldn't it.
I posted a dance.
I immediately deleted it because
it was bad, it was so bad.
So I was like, it's not
going to be dancing,
so what's it going to be?
So then I started
doing lip-syncing,
and then Trump is on television
every day
during these daily coronavirus
task force meetings.
-That's right.
-And he's just kind of BS'ing
his way through the presidency
as he usually does,
but it's just in your face
every day, you know, and so
I'm, like, looking at him
and getting so frustrated
because people are just nodding
and pretending, like, what
he's saying is making sense
and pretending like
he's smart,
and it's just --
it's so frustrating.
Because it's like --
it reminded me of being
in the corporate world.
Like, I'd be in a meeting
and, like, a business guy
would come in
and he would throw around
some buzz word he just learned
five minutes ago,
and he would just talk
and people would be like,
"Oh, wow, he's so smart.
Yeah, what a key team player."
You know, all this stuff.
And I was like --
-And you're like --
-Yeah, I know.
Am I the crazy one?
And to be honest, I've always
wanted to be one of those guys.
I just -- I've always wanted to
be able to, like, talk my way
through things and just like
BS my way through life.
So it's, like, more like
jealousy, actually.
I was like, can I do that?
Can I just BS my way
through life?
So I just grabbed some clips
where he was just saying
something just nonsensical
and just pretended to be
like one of those guys
in a meeting just like,
"Hey, look at me,
I'm killing it,
even though what I'm
saying makes no sense.
-Just walk me through,
like how does it come about?
You're watching this thing
on TV
and then you just write it down
or you --
you rewind it
or what do you do?
You memorize it?
-Usually it's like a clip
that I find online,
on Twitter or somewhere
and I'm just listening to it
and I'm just, like,
picturing it in my head,
mouthing the words
and figuring out,
how can I bring this to life?
Like, with the medical --
when he said
we can bring ultraviolet light
into the body
through the skin or
some other way,
I was like,
what -- what other way
would it be,
would you be doing that?
So I immediately was just like,
well, it must be up the butt.
[ Laughter ]
I guess this is how --
-What other way do you
get light into the body?
What is the -- oh, gosh.
-I don't know.
So I'm picturing that
in my head, and then I just --
I just start shooting it,
and shooting it in pieces helps
because then I can just
do that one little piece
over and over and over
and over again
until I get it just right,
with like the --
just the words, but also
like the breaths
and the ums and the ahs
that he has
and when he's, like,
reaching for words,
and especially in that clip
where he's, like,
"You're going to have to use
medical doctors, right?"
You know, he's so proud
of the fact that he knows
that there are
different kinds of doctors.
I mean, I just -- it is insane.
So I love being able to just
really highlight and point out
the subtext of
what's going on.
-Are you doing this by yourself?
Is there anyone helping you?
-It's really just me
and my very patient dog
and my very patient husband
having to listen to
Donald Trump's voice
over and over again as I try
to remember these things,
which my husband has only jumped
out the window once so far.
-He's like, "I think you
got it that take, honey!"
-[ Laughs ]
-"I think you got that one.
Let's go. Let's move on."
-Yeah.
-Gosh, it's so funny.
-Yeah.
-And it's really
what we need right now,
and it's really amazing.
I want to -- on Twitter
and Instagram you're
@sarahcpr.
-Yes.
-That's easy to remember.
And then your TikTok handle
is @whatchugotforme.
-Which I wish I had picked
a better one.
That made no sense.
I didn't think anybody was going
to look at my TikTok
so you just pick your random
user name and it's just stupid.
-I like @whatchugotforme.
It's like, what you got for me?
-Whatchugotforme?
-I had the worst e-mails
in my entire life.
I still have bad e-mails.
I'm like, this is pretty clever,
this will stand
the test of time.
-Yeah.
-It never does.
You're doing a Q&A.
When is this?
-Yeah, so I'm doing
a live event,
it's a Q&A next Wednesday
at 8:00 P.M.
it's going to be live.
I am just going to talk through
like how exactly
I make these videos, where --
how I did the jump from tech
to comedy and all that stuff.
And so you can go to
sarahcpr.com
and find out all about it.
And yeah, I'm excited to connect
with my new fans.
-Sarah Cooper, I can't wait
to talk to you again.
Thank you so much for coming
on our show.
-Thank you so much
for having me, Jimmy.
-Bye. Stay safe.
-Bye.
