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Hahamishia Hakamerit was a weekly Israeli satirical sketch comedy television program created by Asaf Tzipor, who was also the main writer of the show, and Eitan Tzur, who directed the entire run of the show. Hahamishia Hakamerit was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2 and Israeli Channel 1 between the years 1993-1997. Later on, reruns of the show were broadcast on the cable channel Bip. The show's often surreal skits were characterized by a satirical point of view which did not spare the audience sensitive subjects such as politics, national security, the Holocaust and sex. Another characteristic of the show's sketches was that occasionally they had an unclear point or punch line. Following the success of the show, similar sketch comedy programs were produced on Israeli television. Unlike Hahamishia Hakamerit's humor, these subsequent shows followed a line much closer to the consensus.
Episodes
The smell of war in the air; Shin Bet interrogators in the toilets; synagogue: cantors and commercials; not your war; the prime minister and the tree; intercom; the boy and the bodyguard; the children's channel: who is Rabin?; Yigal Amir in prison.
Study hall: Torah study and ratings; continuing tonight's broadcast: "I slept with your best friend"; home: the wife-beater; the leftist bohemia: a settler at an acid party; prepare your home for war; Oskar Schindler: the extra in Schindler's List; Shakespeare: genius artists in two minutes; a very narrow bridge: the suicidal man and the religious.
Car bomb: Hamas men in a traffic jam; he and she: God, politically correct; pregnancy: the inseminator; a flat in Shikun Gimmel: the residents' committee meeting; the suburban train; a Tetris production; since the recession: the travelling couple; disappointments and layoffs; the tunnel; homeland vacation: get up and go.
Information superhighway: the armless pianist; the PM's salary; the submarine INS Dakar; something in the mouth; no big deal: an enema; the hot left-wing activist; the newly religious son and his parents.
Supermarket: the aubergine bonus; answering machine; just like that; Polish mother: mother and son on the phone; prepare for the coming of the Messiah; old people's home: a day centre for the elderly; It's a Wonderful Life: the deaf suicide.
An Ethiopian at a travel agency; great dramas: Vanunu, the season; the hanger; the engineer; the Burma Road; Richard III; an alien in the toilets; family spirits; the friendly café.
There is / isn't anyone to talk to; little circles in the ear; wedding; the presenter in the studio; on faith; did you warm up? not easy; everyone tells: the annoying listener.
Yitzpan from America; the midnight edition: Tucker and Halperin; the poverty line at the Zichtoni family; deepening values: the girl and the goldfish; Paz juice; the ice seller; a little house in the Arava.
Amudo / salted fish; Bnei Brak: the city taxi; West Side Story: Sara Netanyahu; the Baba Disney; the day Marilyn Monroe died: an American play; without words: no words to describe the sadness.
Banana republic: restaurant, bed, living room, books, vegetables; rain: the organised-crime man; the housewife and the soldier: the IDF gigolo; housekeepers; a prayer of repentance for Shai Avivi; the Shin Bet chief and the Israeli artist.
Basketball: why are you shouting at me; questioning the PM; Davar newspaper sandwiches; congratulations: the lotto winner; don't shout at me; my Arab friend; on the outskirts of Gaza; a reserve call-up on Purim; come and enlist.
D. Shilon and R. Reshef: good evening; the sergeant major of the newly religious; the royalty songs: pub, Mizrahi, workers; you make me feel good: a couple in a taxi; the tortoise in the city park; friends in a limousine: what happened to me, the devil knows; cola commercial; basketball: farewell to Zion; It will yet be.
