Comedian Sarah Cooper On Bringing Humor to Any Career
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HBR IdeaCast
SARAH COOPER: I think, the first one, pretty similar to what I did with the Trump impressions, is just this jealousy, really, as someone who is a woman of color, I can’t talk myself into things, I can’t talk myself out of things, I’ve never been able to do that. And so, what ends up happening is we kind of turn into robots in these meetings where we’re just kind of doing our little tricks and we’re not actually being present, and, although there are some people who didn’t realize it was satire, who didn’t realize I was actually making fun of it, I think a lot of people realize the true point of it, which is basically be yourself, be real, don’t talk in buzz words, don’t just lean on you, sort of kind of tricks to- SARAH COOPER: So, I’ve kind of turned my observational eye onto myself and…