• 10 months ago
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, directed by Natasha Lyonne, is now on Netflix!

Comedian Jacqueline Novak’s GET ON YOUR KNEES, her break-out hit stand-up show about the blowjob, is now on Netflix. A word-of-mouth sensation Off-Broadway, directed for the stage by John Early, the show first took off in 2019, where audience members showed for repeat viewings across multiple sold-out runs. A Time's Critic's Pick, the show earned Jacqueline a Drama Desk nomination for Best Solo Performance. Novak teamed up with director Natasha Lyonne and cinematographer Sam Levy (Rothaniel, Lady Bird) to film the show’s final performance as a concert film-meets-comedy special at historic Town Hall in New York City. Ostensibly a 90-minute stand-up set about the blowjob, GET ON YOUR KNEES is both raunchy and poignant, an unexpectedly philosophical, coming-of-age tale of triumph that pushes the boundaries of stand-up. John Mulaney said: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have seen the Muhammad Ali of comedy.”

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00:00 [cheers and applause]
00:01 Thank you. Despite--
00:03 Despite your warm welcome, that journey was hell.
00:06 [laughter]
00:08 The journey from backstage to a microphone always is.
00:11 It's fraught.
00:12 And it's 'cause for me, what it reminds me of
00:15 is the journey, you know...
00:18 [laughter]
00:20 From someone's face...
00:22 [laughter]
00:24 Down their torso...
00:26 [air horn blaring]
00:28 Here's an open.
00:30 [laughter]
00:32 To give them a blowjob.
00:34 [air horn blaring]
00:36 'Cause the whole way there, both scenarios,
00:39 everyone knows what you're headed to do.
00:41 [laughter]
00:43 But you're not yet doing the thing.
00:45 So there's just this question hanging in the air
00:48 the whole way of, "Can she do it?"
00:50 I mean, will she do the thing we're all here for
00:52 well or badly?
00:54 And, oh, God, the uncertainty, the--
00:56 the tenuousness, I mean...
00:58 [laughter]
01:00 Can you feel it?
01:02 [air horn blaring]
01:04 I am gonna talk about the blowjob quite a bit tonight.
01:08 "To the point of tedium," said one early critic.
01:12 [laughter]
01:14 [upbeat music]
01:17 ♪ ♪
01:20 [music fades]
01:22 [music fades]
01:24 [music fades]
01:26 [music fades]
01:28 [music fades]
01:30 [music fades]
01:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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