Jun 30, 2026 · 46 min · 13 segments
What role does comedy play in a society under constant pressure? Can laughter do more than entertain—can it actually help people heal? In this episode of **Sababoosh**, I sit down with Israeli…
Yochay SponderGuest
Jake GillisHost
So when did you decide that you'd take a swing at it and with Funny Monday and different things that have popped up over more recently in your career? How did you choose to do that and-
So first of all, watching comedy in, in Israel, in Hebrew, is always great, and I think we have a great scene here.
Comedians that are not per se stand-up comedians, also just comedian actors and comedy shows that I grew up, and it's great.
But in certain point in my mature life, I started to watch more of the international com- comedy, that it's, it's the real, the highest level of stand-up comedians are unfortunately not from Israel.
And I used to watch them and that's the language of, of the professional scene.
The f- the most famous, successful comedians speaking English right now, and I think it's that stand-up comedy language, and I started to explore that with time.
Back to 2012, I, it was the first time that I had the courage to, to go to America to try, 14 years ago.
And, and since then it's always you're going, you're trying, and you get back to Israel.
Shachar and I, we opened two comedy scene separately, parallelly, simultaneously.
And we didn't know about each other after, it was three months that we did it separately, but at the same time.
After that summer, I went to America for the first time, but Shachar kept doing the open mic in every Sunday in the Jessica Bar.
And when I came back, I was one of the, like we call it the, an officer of...
We had people that need to help the scene, so we line up the comedians, the more mature comedian, they can hold up a night for, of themselves, and they're gonna lead the producer comedians.
So when did you decide that you'd take a swing at it and with Funny Monday and different things that have popped up over more recently in your career? How did you choose to do that and-
So first of all, watching comedy in, in Israel, in Hebrew, is always great, and I think we have a great scene here.
Comedians that are not per se stand-up comedians, also just comedian actors and comedy shows that I grew up, and it's great.
But in certain point in my mature life, I started to watch more of the international com- comedy, that it's, it's the real, the highest level of stand-up comedians are unfortunately not from Israel.
And I used to watch them and that's the language of, of the professional scene.
The f- the most famous, successful comedians speaking English right now, and I think it's that stand-up comedy language, and I started to explore that with time.
Back to 2012, I, it was the first time that I had the courage to, to go to America to try, 14 years ago.
And, and since then it's always you're going, you're trying, and you get back to Israel.
Shachar and I, we opened two comedy scene separately, parallelly, simultaneously.
And we didn't know about each other after, it was three months that we did it separately, but at the same time.
After that summer, I went to America for the first time, but Shachar kept doing the open mic in every Sunday in the Jessica Bar.
And when I came back, I was one of the, like we call it the, an officer of...
We had people that need to help the scene, so we line up the comedians, the more mature comedian, they can hold up a night for, of themselves, and they're gonna lead the producer comedians.
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