Jacqueline Novak’s debut stand-up is unique, “Get on Your Knees,” started as an essay she wrote in the early 2000s while attending Georgetown University, addressing her “evolving ideas about and her relationship to” performing oral s*x.
Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, will premiere on Netflix on January 23, 2024. Novak appears in the Natasha Lyonne-directed comedy special Get on Your Knees, where she does stand-up.
Get on Your Knees | Official Trailer
Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special is an obituary on s*x and power.
The typical Netflix comedy special trailer shows a comic slowly moving around the stage, doing set-ups, punchlines, and act-outs for an hour, fragmented only by shots of the audience laughing. The title often depends on the best evening joke or a reference to the comic’s public image.
Get on Your Knees, however, breaks out of the formula. Novak spends 90 minutes on one issue, delving into the power dynamics of s*x acts, the standards and worries that everyone has going on, and the way miscommunications are amplified by silence from at least one side. Novak races around the stage, reflecting on wrong intentions from her teenage years.
Novak’s use of language and use of precise and unexpected analogies delighted throughout the show, as did her many enthusiastic descriptions of the male s*x organ.
Novak picked her onstage attire of a gray T-shirt & skinny jeans because it is “the most neutral, sort of nothing outfit,” with no statements that may contribute to, detract from, or distract from the performance. It’s a brilliant strategy, with Novak’s humility underlining that it’s her self-possession rather than her free-spirited s*xuality that shocks.
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Who is Jacqueline Novak?
Jacqueline Novak set up Get on Your Knees in 2018 when she debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. At first, the show was known as How Embarrassing for Her.
Later, Novak had a performance in Los Angeles. After that, Natasha Lyonne and Mike Birbiglia were interested in the program. Lyonne chose to present the show, while Mike served as producer.
Novak has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Late Night with Seth Meyers, HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, & Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Aside from that, she had a stand-up program on Comedy Central called The Half Hour.
Novak has also been on sketch comedy shows and animation series, including Animals, The Characters, & Inside Amy Schumer. She additionally wrote scripts for Anthony Jeselnik’s Comedy Central show, Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik, and the television sitcom Broad City.
Natasha Lyonne directed the comedic special. In addition to directing the Netflix stand-up special, she co-executed it with Jacqueline Novak. In addition to Novak & Lyonne, John Early, John Irwin, Chris Laker, and Mike Birbiglia are executive producers for the Netflix comedy special.
