Ha-Comedy Store (Hebrew: הקומדי סטור, 'The Comedy Store') was an Israeli entertainment program which was broadcast on the Israeli
Channel 2 between the years
1994
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1996. In its prime it starred
Zvika Hadar
Zvika Hadar ( he, צביקה הדר, ; born 7 April 1966) is an Israeli actor, comedian and television host.
Biography
Zvi (Zvika) Fruchter (later Hadar) was born in Beersheba, Israel, to Romanian Jewish family. As a child, he studied piano. Ea ...
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Assaf Ashtar,
Ruby Duenyas,
Gil Sassover and
Itai Segev.
The show scheduled weekly consisted different short
nonsense
Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have u ...
styled skits including recurring nooks, such as "JoJo Ticked-Off" (החלסטרה של ז'וז'ו, ''HaKhalastra shel Zhozho'') and "Jacques' Bulletin" (המבזק של ז'ק, ''HaMivzak shel Zhak'') and music segments which were mostly parodies of famous Israeli songs.
During the first seasons, the show won a great success, and coined a number of unique expressions to the Hebrew language such as "Laflaf" (לפלף, 'nerd'; plural 'laflafim' לפלפים), "
Khalastra" (חלסטרה, a slang word used by 'JoJo' to describe his resent and anger at various things on his nook 'JoJo Ticked-Off'). The character which is mostly remembered and identified with the show is apparently Jojo Halastra, played by Tzvika Hadar, which was a parody on the Israeli ''
Ars''.
In 1995 a "Ha-Comedy Store" album was released containing all of the most popular songs and skits.
After the third season the shows' popularity descended after some of the actors left the show.
Cast
*Zvika Hadar
*Assaf Ashtar
*Ruby Duenyas
*Gil Sassover
*Itai Segev
*Erez Ben Harush
*Lior Halfon
*Yaniv Katzir
*Rubi Moskovitz
*Arik Silbermann
See also
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Jojo Khalastra
External links
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Israeli television shows
Channel 2 (Israeli TV channel) original programming
1990s Israeli television series
1994 Israeli television series debuts
1996 Israeli television series endings
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