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On June 4, the\u00a0IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0Spring 2026 ceremony\u00a0will\u00a0celebrate the creators and stars responsible<\/a>\u00a0for crafting some of the year\u2019s best television series. Curated and selected by IndieWire\u2019s editorial team, IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind shows well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new\u00a0interviews<\/a>\u00a0and tributes from their peers.<\/p>\n Ahead, Abbi Jacobson<\/a> tells IndieWire about the \u201cso smart and so very dumb\u201d aspects of humanity that Spark Award recipient Raphael Bob-Waksberg<\/a> brings to vivid life in their Netflix animated series, \u201cLong Story Short<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n There is no one quite like Raphael. His spirit and humor come through in everything he touches. I\u2019ve gotten the chance to work with him in a much lesser capacity on \u201cBoJack Horseman\u201d and now on \u201cLong Story Short,\u201d and I can say with the utmost confidence that we are better for the work he puts out into the world.<\/p>\n Life can be hard and sad and complicated, but it\u2019s also hilarious and absurd \u2014 relationships are, family is, friendship is. Raphael lets us see all of the things we wrestle with, marching side by side, allowing us to connect and feel seen, while also showing us other experiences and lives we might not be familiar with. It\u2019s all so smart and so very dumb \u2014 my favorite combination. <\/p>\n \u201cThe RBW secret sauce\u201d so we say. (No one says this.)<\/p>\n To get to work with him as an actor is an absolute joy. He is so extremely collaborative, supportive, and inclusive and sets an incredible tone for the show both in front of and behind the \u201ccamera.\u201d I feel so lucky to float around in both his real and fictitious worlds. If at the end of a hard day we get to plop down and watch something he\u2019s made, well, it doesn\u2019t get much better.<\/p>\n \u201cLong Story Short\u201d is available now on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 4, the\u00a0IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0Spring 2026 ceremony\u00a0will\u00a0celebrate the creators and stars responsible\u00a0for crafting some of the year\u2019s best television…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[219378,10779,156,105676,230682,122341,111,139,69,230683,437],"class_list":["post-453551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abbi-jacobson","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-indiewire-honors","tag-indiewire-honors-2026","tag-long-story-short","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-raphael-bob-waksberg","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Spark](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RAPHAEL-copy.jpg\")
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