| “Get on Your Knees,” her Netflix special, is a reflection on the blow job.  Photograph by Julia Johnson for The New Yorker A handful of years ago, the standup comedian Jacqueline Novak had an epiphany. She’d been struggling to break through, despite attracting the admiration of her fellow-comics. “The key to success wasn’t slowly working your way up, grasping for small opportunities,” Carrie Battan writes, of this flash of inspiration, in a Profile of Novak from this week’s issue. “Instead, she decided to channel her energies into one exceptional piece of work.” That turned out to be an hour-and-a-half show about fellatio, titled “Get on Your Knees,” which she wrote in 2017 and has been performing in the years since, in spaces ranging from house parties to theatres. An inveterate tinkerer—in her art, her life, even her own body—Novak had been putting off taping the show for Netflix. Battan asks what finally made her ready. “All of these fantasies of tacking my mind down and working in this way of funnelling everything toward the best version . . . I had to completely fucking let go of,” Novak explains. Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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