Totally! “There’s a playful dignity to the whole thing where we’re taking ourselves seriously, but not so seriously that it’s a joke,” Novak tells ELLE.com.

(Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, through August 18, 2019. "I think in my standup I end up giving permission to myself to feel a certain way, to approach things a certain way or to have a certain opinion. The show’s about blowjobs, but it’s legitimate.” Produced by comedian Mike Birbiglia, along with Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne, Get On Your Knees masters a form of comedic over-analysis that is both earnest and hilarious. The show, which sits somewhere between a theatrical monologue and a stand-up comedy set, is Novak hitting her stylistic stride. When it comes to stand-up, she cites Chris Rock as one of her favorites.

Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees is the most high-brow show about blowjobs you'll ever see. It’s The Odyssey meets a French semiotician’s wet dream. “I was the fool.”, Already a subscriber? “It’s funny because I still don’t think it’s finished at all,” she says. She has a poetic sensibility, she tells us; she is a born orator and, if anything, too articulate.

You’ve been on Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, all these shows, which is great for your career of course, but you’re also on television talking about…dicks. By saying that publicly, I hope it gives other people permission, too.". If I’m talking to theater person and they’re like “You’re just doing stand-up in a theater!” I’ll be like “Um no, it’s theater, and here’s why,” or [mock-serious voice] “Consider this an experimental theater piece about a woman doing stand-up, and I am playing myself.”, And if I’m talking to stand-up people and they try to say “Oh, you’re just doing a one-woman show, there’s less pressure to be funny,” then I’m like, ‘Check the jokes count, motherf—ers! I continued to think about that over the years. Jacqueline Novak goes deep on getting down in her hit show Get On Your Knees this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. I think it’s truly how I tend to understand thing — maybe even a tool I rely on too much. Featured Netflix talent include Ali Wong, Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Jamie Foxx, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, Sebastian Maniscalco, the cast of Schitt's Creek and more. Indeed, Get On Your Knees might best be described as a 90 minute dissertation-meets-hero's-journey that ends with an energetic, poetic soliloquy about Novak finding her sovereignty.

The show officially opened on Monday, July 22. It’s not a complete washboard, which I do find comforting.”, We step out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur and take a seat above the reflecting pools, just beneath the picturesque slant of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Her body or, as she likes to call it, “a sack of sex potatoes” seems more like an inconvenience.

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Recalling the first time she performed oral sex, she says she found herself wishing she had a second mouth to narrate the attempt: “We are aware of the situation. Running Time: 80 minutes with no intermission, asking @MayorOfLA + City Council to prioritize LA people not @LAPPL. Every night for her acclaimed one-woman show, Get on Your Knees, which is ostensibly about blow jobs but is really about how we think about our bodies, she wears a variation on the same monochromatic palette: gray shirt, washed-out black jeans, and gray-and-white sneakers. It kind of feels like I’m making a case for something, an argument, and every night I have the opportunity to make that argument again, so I absolutely leave room.

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And that’s actually a big reason that I’m asking myself, What is the penis?

They love the show! The comedian is taking her critically-acclaimed, celebrity-beloved Get On Your Knees—a thoughtful meditation on the blow job—on tour. According to Novak, Get On Your Knees makes a case for imperfection. Jacqueline Novak on her lyrical, epic deconstruction of the blow job in Get on Your Knees.

The often-poisonous connection between parent and offspring powers a strong episode that sets up a violent conclusion to season two. Novak’s mind is always abuzz, sometimes flitting between various observations like an overstimulated bumblebee surrounded by wildflowers — a result, she says, of her “unmedicated ADD.” And while there are plenty of digressions in Get on Your Knees, they inevitably loop back to a narrative, turning the act of giving a blow job into an epic bildungsroman.

HBO programming really helped normalize sexuality in our house, so I always credit them. While I could figure it out on my own, did this information need to be included? Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia and Abingdon Theatre Company are producers.

In her hands, the penis becomes soft and delicate, like a flower. Despite the interruption, she owned the stage with the kind of confidence that made it seem scripted. Or maybe a ghost.

4 Museums Decided This Work Shouldn’t Be Shown. Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, a new comedy written by and starring Jacqueline Novak, plays The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). If that’s the case, the future is looking intelligent, unafraid, and unapologetically female. #ProtectPeopleNotPolice.

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Natasha Lyonne, another West Coast attendee, agreed with him. But she says the show is still evolving. The whole blowjob story is very essential to me, in my mind.”, Her inspirations for the range from singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco to poets such as T. S. Eliot, whom she quotes multiple times. She takes particular interest in deconstructing the penis itself.

Obviously you have Natasha Lyonne as a presenter, and the night I was at the show, Jemima Kirke from Girls and Alan Cumming were both in the audience in this tiny, tiny room. What better time than a pandemic to reappraise a 2000s micro-genre marked by tank tops, inexplicably attractive casts, and copious amounts of gore. "Scream Laughing" with John Early and Kate Berlant, the Comedians Behind the Bizarre, Delightful Vimeo Series. At a key moment his jaw was just open, and that was like, the greatest. It is an attempt to “neutralize the form,” she says, meaning the female body. Get on Your Knees is showing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre through February 16.

ELLE participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia are producers. When she was four years old, a little boy classmate asked her if she had a penis. Now it has been extended for one final run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, through October 6. That said, I love Novak’s sex positivity; a show that encourages people to dispense with hang-ups and the shame around sex is worth checking out.

And then because the show is also about my discomfort with the body, it feels like the most neutral kind of nondescript clothing makes sense for the show. Kristin Chenoweth!

Along with fellow comedian John Early (who directed Get On Your Knees) she used to host a weekly show on the Lower East Side at the now-closed Cake Shop, and their collaborative relationship continued after the venue shuttered.

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And if someone else were to say something disparaging to them, they would defend me to the death.

We appreciate your patience.” Her director, the fellow comedian John Early, should probably have told her that the show doesn’t need two climaxes. Laughs-per-minute, a–hole, they’re all there!” [Laughs], In the show you talk about discovering sexuality, and particularly blow jobs, through a friend’s older sister’s friend.