Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees // Night One
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Presented by the Spit Take Comedy Series
Friday, November 19, 2021
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
$30 Advance // $40 At The Door
18+
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The Off-Broadway smash one-woman show comes to Minneapolis for an exclusive two-night engagement. A New York Times Critic’s Pick!
Comedian Jacqueline Novak’s Get on Your Knees is the most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see. Novak spins her material on the femininity of the penis and the stoicism of the vulva into an unexpectedly philosophical show that’s part feminist outcry, part coming-of-age tale of triumph. Ira Glass calls it a “nearly Talmudic dissection of a subject. Really funny and just really like nothing else.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have seen the Muhammed Ali of comedy. - John Mulaney
Critic's Pick! Brilliant on the absurdity of having and being a thinking, feeling, desiring body. Shrewd, explicit, though not exactly raunchy, this is the funniest show about Cartesian dualism you will see all year! - The New York Times
Clearly her masterwork. - New York Magazine
An overthinker’s delight, and a reminder that a woman’s humor can cut as deeply as her rage. - The New Yorker
A must see!!! I howled the whole time. – Amy Sedaris
Jacqueline Novak is a comedian whose Off-Broadway, one-woman stand-up show, Get on Your Knees, is a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.” Recognized by the Times on “Best Theater of 2019” and “Best Comedy of 2019” lists, the show has been extended five times in New York City and earned Jacqueline a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. In the most recent NYC extension, the show ran for six sold-out weeks. Jacqueline is a regular on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She has appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden, HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, and in her own half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central’s The Half Hour. Jacqueline’s memoir How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows was published by Crown in 2016 and is now available as an audiobook. New episodes of POOG, a podcast Jacqueline co-hosts with Kate Berlant, come out every Tuesday. Jacqueline grew up in Chappaqua, New York and went to Georgetown University.
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