Shmuel Vilozni is an actor, director, and comedian, and is considered the father of Israeli standup comedy. Vilozni started appearing as a standup comic in the mid-1980s. Then, in 1993 he established the Camel Comedy Club – a standup comedy venue, along with his partner, Ben Zeidel . Vilozni has appeared in a long list of stage plays, including the hit production of The Servant of Two Masters in 1993. Highlights of Vilozni’s stage-directing credits include The Inspector Calls and Twelve Angry Men. His film credits include: Hapnimiya (‘the boarding school’) (Yeud Levanon, 1983), Million Dollar Madness (Naftali Alter, 1986), Tel Aviv-Berlin (Tzipi Trope, 1987), I Don’t Give a Damn (Shmuel Imberman, 1987), The Deserter’s Wife (Michal Bat-Adam, 1992), Tehilim (‘psalms’) (Raphaël Nadjari, 2007), Bena (Niv Klainer, 2009), Cats on a Pedal Boat (Yuval Mendelson & Nadav Hollander, 2011), Sweets (Joseph Pitchhadze, 2013), And Then She Arrived (Roee Florentin, 2017), and Fractures (Arik Lubetzki, 2018).