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Gil Sassover became the fig leaf of Channel 20 at the expense of childhood memories from the nineties

The new light night show from the nineties star, "A Very Good Night", is a cynical classic from Channel 20. After hours of insults, slander and Pike News at the lowest level - comes a show that promises to broadcast only positivity on screen.

Sometimes it works, but most of the time it's just awkward to watch

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Monday, 19 October 2020, 07:18

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The ultimate nineties symbol.

Gil Sassover with the children of the candles, the day after Rabin's assassination (screenshot)

A little over a decade ago, I was sent by a not-so-small media outlet to cover one of the book week events held at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv.

I had already finished my business at the place, when suddenly polite speakers announced that actor and creator Gil Sassover would sign his new book at one of the stands.

This post shook me.

Something by that name, Gil Sassover, went through all the capillaries of nostalgia in my body.

When I got to the podium, Sassover was sitting there alone.

Gil Fucking Sassover.

The one and only beautiful, there is no de flash.

To my surprise, no one stood in line to buy the book.

Suddenly a father came and dragged his teenage son to the stand and asked him out loud, "Do you want us to buy you Gil Sassover's book and he will sign it for you?".

Sassover smiled when he heard the boy answer: "Who is the age of Sassover?".

It was too much for me.

The muscles took command, and I bought the book.

I had no children then, and in hindsight I realized that he too had no children when he wrote his children's book, which is surprising, since it is a lovely work.

Since then he has managed to make four.

For my generation Gil Sassover it is no longer just a name.

This is the ultimate Cool embodiment.

James Dean in Hebrew version.

Anyone who tries to sum up his work as a French scientist from "Jacques' Flash" is lying to himself.

The nonsense humor and slapstick dominated the screen of the legendary "Comedy Store", but off the screen Sassover became a symbol of an era.

He was the most sought after bachelor in Israel.

Later, his relationship with Yael Bar-Zohar was the dictionary definition of power-couple.

From this position he came to present a virtual game in the center of which is a simple computer game about a cute troll, which changed the picture for thousands of geek kids who used to play in their room alone.

Suddenly, computer games have become cool stuff.

Even half a century later, the song "Hey Hugo Hey" is still a huge rock hit.

The children of the 1990s also got to see Sassover in Kings of Israel Square, just before it changed its name, when it accompanied the special broadcast day together with "Children of the Candles" the day after Rabin's assassination.

He was the right man in the right place.

He marked the period for us.

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there were days.

Gil Sassover, Michal Yanai and Yael Bar Zohar (Photo: Bochecho)

All this long and personal introduction came to explain how hard it was to watch Sassover's new show on Channel 20. The muscles contracted like at that stand during school week.

The heart wanted to pargan.

The soul did not cease to admire the man who brought us the "Song of the Tarta."

And yet, the eyes refused to believe what they saw.

Where did the convention-breaking comedian from "The Machine That Increases the G" from Comedy Store go?

After the question "Where did Gil Sassover go" became a currency, the answer seems much less interesting than the mere preoccupation with the question and the sweet memories it brings up.

Sassover's new show, "A Very Good Night," is a cynical classic from Channel 20. After a few hours of insults, slander and Pike News at the lowest level - comes a show that promises to broadcast only positives on screen.

For the avoidance of doubt, she's really trying to do it.

In the half hour given to him, Sassover dealt only with compliments and paragons.

And the truth is, even the most cynical heart will miss a beat when he watches Sassover interviewing Nava Revivo, the mother of Golani fighter Amit Ben Yigal who was killed by a stone thrown at his head during an operation near Jenin.

Sassover is not a certified interviewer, the broadcast level was horrible, but his humanity in this conversation blurred the background noises.

This was not a typical talk show of a licked presenter with a star trying to promote her new film, but a man who was once very famous, and today seeks to take advantage of his fame to compliment the bereaved mother on the wedding venture she opened in her backyard corona.

A small, simple - and true human story.

Although far from original, the idea of ​​picking up a program of "only good news" in the Corona Age and the difficult division in the nation is positive and commendable.

And yet, it's hard to ignore the contrast between the prime-time shows and the "Heritage Channel" light-night shows.

After Shimon Riklin's collection of nonsense, who during a simple discussion invited a guy named Yaakov, whose role is not clear, and gave him screen time to slander at the lowest level about Assaf Zamir, Ofira and Berkovich and especially Ehud Barak, on whom he poured a ton of slander that caused Riklin Himself to warn him that he risks a lawsuit.

Later came the hour of shouting with Yinon Magal, the same man who recommended to the prime minister to shoot all the journalists with a submachine gun.

After this inferior television sequence, half an hour of the new fig leaf Gil Sassover is really not enough to atone for all the injustices done before him.

Due to technical glitches we did not notice how much it was not funny.

Gil Sassover on Channel 20 (screenshot)

One should also ask why he needs it.

Decades after his artistic heyday, Sassover seems to be in a great place in his private and professional life.

He has a beautiful family, an energetic woman who twice ran in the elections on Bennett and Shaked's list and successful private businesses that managed to "hide" him from the public eye - and at the same time cause a proper degree of public and nostalgic longing for him.

He is making this "comeback" from a clean place.

It started with the release of a negligible musical single, stand-up shows that were not a significant success and a reunion with the Comedy Store gang that detailed nicely on the strings of nostalgia, but not beyond.

The comeback should have stopped here, just before the overkill.

Unfortunately, the stage germ was stronger than him.

He did not need the show on Channel 20, but apparently he could not have done without it.

The show itself moves on the spectrum between "cute" and "embarrassing", with no choice but to give it a discount on the immaturity of the first episode.

Just as one does not judge the main course in a restaurant that has just opened, it is worth giving the people of the show some grace time, certainly when it comes to a daily show live.

And yet, it seems that every moment this plan stays alive will erode what is left of Sassover's 'legacy'.

Mostly because she's really, really not funny.

As befits Channel 20, even the show's time is Pike News, when the show started three minutes ahead of time with a very unfunny parody sketch in the style of "Mission Impossible."

Rather it looks like a parody sketch on such a parody sketch.

The early opening hour really wasn’t the last technical glitch on the broadcast.

Sassover conducted an entire monologue that is unclear if it is not funny simply because it is poorly written or because of the crunchy applause that came from two studio workers at the end of each joke.

If that's not enough, Sassover just does not know where to look while he is interviewing, when the director seems to be deliberately sabotaging the broadcast and filming the wrong frame each time.

It continued with an exaggeratedly flattering interview with Aki Avni, the second most wanted bachelor in Israel for 1997, while Sassover was in first place.

As befits the concept of the show, the conversation between the two was positive and full of beautiful compliments and quotes - but also artificial and boring.

It does not have to be this way.

A "positive conversation" does not have to be boring.

A meeting between two big stars from the nineties could have provided an interesting glimpse into the glamorous life of those years, not necessarily from a yellow and nosy place, but the two simply contented themselves with mutual compliments and some successful Shaki Avni on Instagram.

For dessert, I literally, Avni got a fortune cookie that said (how surprising) it always goes the right way.

As a friend of Sassover once said: What is this regret ?!

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The climax of the interview with Aki Avni came with the "surprise" when his mother was aired.

Avni responded with exaggerated and completely fake enthusiasm ("Mom ?! Wow !!!").

One might have mistakenly thought he had been allowed to speak to the Queen of England and not to his mother, with whom he had spoken a few hours earlier, he said.

It could still have been cute somehow, had it not been for the technical glitch (yes, another one) that kept viewers from hearing Hannah Avni's words.

Aki himself was unable to hear his mother either, when in fact the only one who understood the mother's words was Sassover, who suggested that Aki connect him to her ears.

But again, this is a first show, live, you can accept the glitches in love.

The end of the program offered a gadget corner that was pulled directly from the nineties, with glam in the "zombie" style resting Eden.

The corner presenter presented Sassover with a colorful drinking glass, a bat-shaped wine bottle opener and a cage where guests' locks could be locked before family meals.

By the way, it is not clear whether a cage with a lock is at all technically considered a gadget, nevertheless it is an invention found in the ruins of Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria.

Either way, the smell of the nineties in the air stopped being nostalgic and began to become a disturbing exception at this point.

In fact, this whole segment looks like an unsuccessful parody of "Jacques' Flash," with the creators turned upside down and Sassover turned from the eccentric scientist who presents crazy inventions to the book host who gets excited about anything that presents him with trends leading the way with blue hair.

Like the recent unification of the Comedy Store, the feeling is that the longing was for the concept and the period, and not for the product itself - and nostalgia is a kind of product that should be consumed in measured quantities, and rarely.

A daily light night program is the complete opposite.

We missed Gil Sassover's idea as we miss "Snake" in our first Nokia, it does not mean we will throw the iPhone in the trash now.

There are memories that are best kept as they are, rather than trying to recreate.

It is not clear if there was anything mystical about Hugo's studios, but after Noa Yaron repented, a partner in the program also approached religion.

This is of course perfectly fine, probably when he seems to choose to take from Judaism the pearls of wisdom and positive values.

The spiritual posts on Sassover's Facebook page, in which he calls for the union of hearts and free love, leave no room for doubt that his heart is in the right place.

In his cover photo, he placed the most beautiful words in the Hebrew language: "And love your neighbor as yourself."

It's no less sound than anything else he's done in his artistic career.

The problem is that it is impossible to call for unity and love and at the same time cooperate with evil groves like Riklin and try to cover up distributors of ignorance like Boaz Golan.

If Sober had uploaded the new show as a live broadcast on his Facebook page, the show would have gained a similar amount of viewers as there are at night on Channel 20, maybe even more.

In such a network program it was possible to get the most understanding of the many technical glitches and amateur directing.

And most importantly, such a program should not have been associated with a channel that spreads so much venom, incitement and division.

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