Omri Marcus (born 1979) is a comedy writer and the founder of Comedy for a Change - an international conference on the power of comedy to drive forward social change.[1]
Marcus was formerly a development partner at ProSiebenSat.1's Red Arrow Entertainment Group.[2] Prior to that he was a senior writer on Israel’s top comedy panel show, as well as a consultant of Israeli production companies in analyzing global TV and new-media trends.
As a director in the development department for Israel’s leading TV network, Channel 2 Reshet, Marcus is credited with the creation of the original dating show Buzz Off,[3] recently optioned to France, Spain, Ireland and China.[4]
Over the last 15 years, Marcus has been involved in the development and writing of numerous major entertainment shows on Israeli TV. Among his successes is Eretz Nehederet (What a Wonderful Country), enjoying regular ratings of over 30% and winning four Israeli Academy Awards.[5]
Marcus also writes regularly for numerous leading American and European papers and blogs (Huffington Post, Tablet, MediaPost etc.) about Israeli current affairs and TV business.
In 2009 the Format Academy for Entertainment, Television & New Media (EMC), granted Marcus its prestigious fellowship, given to professionals involved in designing the media of the future.[6]
In his spare time, Marcus runs a unique Israeli-Palestinian tech venture and volunteers at Eye from Zion, a humanitarian organization that performs free medical surgeries in third-world countries.[7]
Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television sitcom Seinfeld, on which David was head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. He gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a fictionalized version of himself. He has written or co-written the story of every episode since its pilot episode in 1999.
Endemol B.V. was a Dutch-based media company that produced and distributed multiplatform entertainment content. The company annually produced more than 15,000 hours of programming across scripted and non-scripted genres, including drama, reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment, factual and children's programming.
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable television network. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel focuses primarily on pop culture, celebrity based reality shows and movies.
Assi Cohen is an Israeli comedian and actor. He is best known for his appearances in the feature film Colombian Love, as well as for television performances in Love Hurts, "Rak BeYsrael" with his comedy duo of "Assi and Guri", his role in Mesudarim, and for his part in Eretz Nehederet, where he has impersonated Avigdor Lieberman, Raleb Majadele, and Uri Geller among others.
Eretz Nehederet is an Israeli prime-time television satirical sketch comedy show, that premiered on Keshet's Channel 2 in 2003. It features satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. The program's concept is inspired by Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show and others. The program is one of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV. It is also one of the longest-running scripted shows in Israeli television to date, running for 20 seasons as of 2022. Beginning with Season 15, the program is aired on Keshet 12, in HDTV.
Keshet Media Group, also known as the Keshet company, is a private Israeli mass media company, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv. Its media and online news outlet Mako is one of the major Israeli ones.
A web series is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or a "webisode"; however, the term is not always used. In general, web series can be watched on a range of platforms and devices, including desktop, laptop, tablets and smartphones. They are different from streaming television, which is purposed to be watched on various streaming platforms, though the term "web series" is sometimes used to refer to streaming television series. Because of the nature of the Internet itself, a web series may be interactive. Web series are classified as new media.
Eli Finish is an Israeli actor and comedian. He is well known for acting in the popular TV show Eretz Nehederet.
Mariano Idelman is an Argentinian-born Israeli actor and comedian. He is well known for acting in the popular TV show Eretz Nehederet.
Eyal Kitzis is an Israeli actor, comedian and TV host.
Yuval Semo is an Israeli actor and comedian. He became well known for his roles in the popular Israeli TV show, Eretz Nehederet and later for Zanzouri and Hashoter Hatov.
Brett Clifford Gelman is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Murray Bauman in Netflix's horror-supernatural series Stranger Things and as Martin in the BBC comedy Fleabag.
Eran Prion, professionally known as Prayon, is an Israeli musician and music producer based in Tel Aviv and New York. He has composed scores and theme music for many TV shows, most notably ABC's Rising Star.
Lior Schleien is an Israeli television producer and host.
Roy Kafri (Hebrew: רועי כפרי; born November 12, 1985) is an Israeli artist, comedian, and musician. His various projects have been well received on the web. Kafri co-created with Niv Majar the web series Nitza Ve’Lechem. He released musical projects including the web hit "Mayokero". Kafri also starred in a mini-series "Bekitzur" as part of the 10th season of the Israeli show Eretz Nehederet.
Eyal B, is an Israeli animator, director, screenwriter, comic book artist and designer.
Erez Aviram is an Israeli television screenwriter and editor known for his work on the comedy shows Eretz Nehederet and Hashoter Hatov .
The Awards of the Israeli Television Academy are annual awards for excellence in the Israeli television industry, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
Amir Shurush is an Israeli actor. In 2021, he won the 'Best Actor - Comedy Series' award at the Awards of the Israeli Television Academy.
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