Here is a news flash -- nothing is going to change after the Israeli elections in a few weeks. Spoiler alert: The right wing parties will stay in power, and the Israelis will show once again that they want peace, just not with Arabs.

But the show must go...

I grew up in the early 80s. Our living room had only one entertainment device -- a TV set. Fast forward 30 years and I can count almost ten devices in our bourgeois but very standard living room. All of them there do the exact same job -- entertain us:...

These days, starting your day with a newspaper can be a depressing experience. Each morning, we wake up to headlines about a crazy new law, another bizarre way to spend our tax money or another macho quote by the Foreign Minister.
When the news sucks, we are left with...

The creators of the great sitcom Community did something brilliant on a recent episode. Allegedly it was just an episode like every other -- plot A and plot B that at the end had a meeting point. However, the sharp-sighted viewer got an added value: an entire plot line, completely...

The Middle East is a confusing place. Whenever I have guests from abroad and try to explain our crazy situation -- they lose track after 10-15 minutes. I always get the same desperate, tired look and the insight that logic in the Middle East is best described like the facebook...

If you Google the phrase "Sitcom is dead," you'll get not less than 17,900 results, quite an impressive number. All those informed articles analyzing audience's exhaustion with the genre, all those proclamations that sitcoms are on a one-way ticket to the TV graveyard.

Yet a look at today's television reveals...

I've just finished watching The Virgin Show on Japanese TV. As the title implies, it takes one of the most intimate and vulnerable moments in a woman's life - that of losing her virginity, and brings into the living rooms of Japanese homes via the wonder - and...

One-liners (a.k.a. Monologue Jokes) are an important part of our lives. The average person laughs 38.2 times a day because of one-liner jokes. It's true - it's in Wikipedia. I wrote it there myself.

One-liners have grown more and more popular in recent decades. They've replaced our grandparents' humor,...

Some would say that any attempt to guess what humor will look like in the future is pretentious and doomed to failure. On the other hand, betting on future economic developments is equally futile, and yet it is done all the time. Omri Marcus shares his two cents on what...

The world media is in a bizarre race these days. Everyone wants to get as many details as possible on President Obama's new plan to end the conflict in the Middle East. But let's face it - we all know the drill by heart. We shall experience an optimistic vibe...

Don't believe all that research that claims TV advertising has no impact. I saw such an outrageous ad last night that I almost threw a shoe at the screen. Here is the link.

Only recently Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu came to the States in order to defend...

The conflict in the Middle East seems to have been going on forever. It's weird because everyone has a solution that will end the conflict. Politicians, diplomats, generals and taxi drivers have been fighting for years about whose solution is the most serious one.

Maybe it's about time, after...

Unless some major surprise takes place in the next few hours (and in the Middle East everything is possible), Israel's next Prime Minister will be, once again, Benjamin Netanyahu. It's that old Jewish saying once again "the problem with political jokes is that at some point they become Prime Minister"....

In a few days, Israel will vote, and the polls predict another major political change. Unlike the States, Israel has a multi-party political system, or in other words - more headaches for us all.

No one really understands who's who in Israeli politics - so I devised an easy...

Thanks to the advanced technology being used by the IDF, people living within range of Hamas missiles can now stop worrying about being surprised by a rocket attack. They will now get a 30-second warning before a rocket drops. 30 seconds might not sound like much but with effective time...

Tel Aviv is known as a "bubble" in the middle of Israel. Only a 10 minute drive on the highway you'll find yourself within the range of the Palestinian rockets. Another 20 minutes will take you to the center of Gaza -- within range of Israeli rockets.

Quite a...