Ha-Comedy Store

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Ha-Comedy Store was an Israeli entertainment program which was broadcast on the Israeli Channel 2 between the years 1993-1997. In its prime it stared Zvika Hadar, Assaf Ashtar, Ruby Duenyas, Gil Sassover and Itai Segev.

The show scheduled weekly consisted different short non-sense styled skits including recurring parts such as "JoJo's halastra" and "Jacque's news report" 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 "Laflafim", "Yeshli Yeshli". The character which is mostly remembered and identified with the show, apparently is, Jojo Halastra, played by Zvika 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.