{"id":2121605,"date":"2025-10-29T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2121605"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:11:16","slug":"laugh-lines-in-tel-aviv-coming-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/laugh-lines-in-tel-aviv-coming-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh lines in Tel Aviv coming in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Punch, Tel Aviv\u2019s first-ever stand-up and comedy festival, will take place December 11-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After two years that left little room for laughter, Punch, Tel Aviv\u2019s first-ever stand-up and comedy festival, will bring on the jokes for three days, December 11-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taking place at the Zionist House, the festival will feature <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/must\/article-863451\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:homegrown comedians;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">homegrown comedians<\/a>, a special Russian-language stand-up night, and The Harry Potter Stand-Up Show for the whole family.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Among the performances<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daniel Koren\u2019s new stand-up show about love, gender, and the absurdities in between.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yael Levental, the acclaimed actress, takes to the stage in a funny, personal, and sharply observed solo show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hagit Ginzburg, master of improvisation and wry commentary on single life after 40.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mai Saig and Almog Shur, two of Israel\u2019s most colorful comedians \u2013 Almog, the IDF\u2019s first female stand-up comic, and Mai, who finds humor in every corner of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Khartetoni Live<\/em> \u2013 the hit online game show with Or Butbul and Omri Hacohen, brought to the stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dror Keren in a witty stand-up show about life not quite turning out as promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yonatan Barak\u2019s smart, edgy English-language show for all ages and audiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">The stand-up scene<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cStand-up isn\u2019t just entertainment \u2013 it\u2019s a cultural genre that embodies freedom of thought, artistic courage, and the ability to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-825727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:look reality in the eye;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">look reality in the eye<\/a> without filters. The PUNCH Festival is part of our wider effort to strengthen the city\u2019s cultural infrastructure and open new spaces for independent, original, and bold creation,\u201d said Chen Arieli, the deputy mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, which is producing the festival along with To-Mix Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite a thriving English-speaking stand-up scene in Israel, there won\u2019t be any shows offering native English-language stand-up from Western immigrants, just Barak\u2019s performance. It\u2019s an issue that irks some of the funny folks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEven though the local English scene has been growing for years, it\u2019s taken a while for most of the Israeli comics to notice it on their radar,\u201d said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-732992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Benji Lovitt;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Benji Lovitt<\/a>, a Tel Aviv-based comedian and educator who has been performing at local venues for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s the first time this festival is taking place, so I\u2019ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Though it does annoy many <em>olim<\/em> [new immigrants] when an English show is organized with native English-speaking comics excluded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>For more information and tickets: bit.ly\/3WrVOf9<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punch, Tel Aviv\u2019s first-ever stand-up and comedy festival, will take place December 11-13. After two years that left little room for laughter, Punch, Tel Aviv\u2019s first-ever stand-up and comedy festival, will bring on the jokes for three days, December 11-13. Taking place at the Zionist House, the festival will feature homegrown comedians, a special Russian-language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2121606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[386956,401642],"class_list":["post-2121605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comedy-festival","tag-tel-aviv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Laugh-lines-in-Tel-Aviv-coming-in-December.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121607,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121605\/revisions\/2121607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}