Name: Jacqueline Novak's Off-Broadway Comedy Get on Your Knees Is Not About Prayer
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T09:36:04.000Z
Duration: 6 min 46 s
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-It's great to be back. I'm over on the couch.

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-I know. Last time you were here, you did stand-up.

-I did which, you know, is an indignity, in some senses.

-Like, what do you -- -Well, you know to come out

and go, "Eh, laugh." You know, that sort of thing.

-Oh, no, I mean, I was -- Yes, I was absolutely fantastic.

I love doing stand-up here. And I love --

-Did you always know that you wanted to do stand-up?

-...wanted to be an actress, I feel like.

Look at this. That's a little head shot there.

I just want to say that, what happened to me last time here

and we practiced the set all around town.

"4 1/2 minutes tops," you know, and I, like,

and I couldn't tell if the crowd was, like, feeling me.

So I was like -- I kinda needed to work with them.

And so it ended up being like 6 1/2 minutes.

-Why was it 6 1/2 minutes? -Because I added a few spins.

-Yeah, and I felt like it made everyone more comfortable.

I don't know, 'cause it's, -- You know, it's scary,

'cause, like, even though they can't see --

they know they're on film even though they're not.

-The audience is performing? -Yeah, like, that was...

[ Laughter ] -I think they did a great job.

Yeah, I mean, should we all get up and do one twirl?

On the count of three, ready? [ Cheers and applause ]

It was more at, you know, the elementary school,

-What were you into? -"Les Mis," primarily.

It was huge for the nation, but it was huge for me.

My greatest moment still... was probably my performance

A couple of my friends said, "Hey, we're all doing 'Annie.'

We're all doing a 'Hard Knock Life,' you know."

-That's good. -"Let's all play the orphans."

And I just -- it was awkward, but I had to say, "No, no, no.

I'm gonna enlist my dad to play the piano,

No, they want to make you part of the chorus when...

-We actually got footage of you performing.

Here's Jacqueline in her second grade talent show.

-♪ How do you do? My name's Gavroche ♪

♪ These are my people, here's my patch ♪

♪ Not much to look at, nothing posh ♪

♪ Nothing that you'd call up to scratch ♪

[ Cheers and applause ] -"How do you do?"

-And now -- -And, obviously, now look at us.

-Look at you now. But now you're off-Broadway.

-Let me tell you a little something about

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Jacqueline Novak's Off-Broadway Comedy Get on Your Knees Is Not About Prayer

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