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Jacqueline Novak’s 'On Your Knees' is a poetic and hilarious account of a young woman stepping into sex as one steps onto a stage.

Jacqueline Novak in ‘On Your Knees.’ Credit: Netflix

At the beginning of Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, On Your Knees, she slowly walks out from backstage. Instead of pumping her arms above her head and hyping up the crowd, she bites her lip and looks this way and that before stepping up to the mic. “The journey from backstage to a microphone, what i…