Jacqueline Novak

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Jacqueline Novak
Born (1982-09-03) September 3, 1982 (age 41)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater Georgetown University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • comedian

Jacqueline Novak (born September 3, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and published author. Her off-Broadway, one-woman show Get On Your Knees was a New York Times "Critic's Pick." [1] , and her performance was nominated for a 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. [2] In 2024, Get On Your Knees was made into a Netflix special, directed by Natasha Lyonne. [3] [4]

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Novak's memoir How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows was published by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Crown in 2016. [5] She currently co-hosts a weekly wellness/comedy podcast Poog [6] with friend Kate Berlant. Poog was named one of the ten best podcasts of 2021 [7] by Time Magazine, as well one of the 10 best comedy podcasts of 2021 by Vulture. [8]

Early life

Novak was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gregory Novak, a retired marketing executive, and Naomi (Wall) Novak. [9] Her mother is Jewish, her father is Christian. [10] She is the youngest of three children. [9] The family moved to Chappaqua, New York when she was two years old. [11] She attended Horace Greeley High School there and then went on to Georgetown University. [12] Novak and John Mulaney were in the same college improv troupe at Georgetown, both cast by Nick Kroll, who himself was cast in that troupe a couple of years earlier by Mike Birbiglia. [13]

Career

After graduating from college, Novak began doing stand-up in the downtown New York City comedy scene, often hosting shows with comic/actor John Early. [14] During this time, she wrote her memoir How to Weep in Public. She put her efforts next on developing a one-person show, which eventually became the hit Off-Broadway performance Get On Your Knees. [14]

Novak has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . [15] She has also been on The Late Late Show with James Corden , [16] HBO's 2 Dope Queens , [15] Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen , [17] and has had her own half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central's The Half Hour . [18]

Her TV credits include appearances on Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central), Animals (HBO), and The Characters (Netflix). [19] She has also written for Broad City (Comedy Central), Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik (Comedy Central), and Soft Focus with Jena Friedman (Adult Swim). [19]

Since 2020, Novak has also co-hosted the comedy wellness podcast "POOG" alongside comedian Kate Berlant. [6]

Get On Your Knees

Get On Your Knees began as a one-woman show Novak presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in 2018. [20] At the time, the show was called How Embarrassing for Her. [21] After the festival, she workshopped it in Los Angeles. [22] Mike Birbiglia and Natasha Lyonne saw the show, and Birbiglia decided to produce it for a six-week Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan's West Village. [19] Lyonne agreed to present it. [23] [19] John Early was chosen as director. [19] Due to its popularity, the run at Cherry Lane was extended, then moved to the larger Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theatre, also in the West Village. [24] Recognized on two New York Times lists, "Best Theater of 2019" [25] and "Best Comedy of 2019", [26] the show was extended several more times. [27]

A U.S. and international tour of the show was scheduled in 2020, but due to COVID-19 it was postponed. [28] The show's tour resumed in 2021 and continued into 2022. [29]

Get On Your Knees was released as a Netflix comedy special directed by Natasha Lyonne on January 23, 2024. [4]

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