From the Jewish creator of ‘BoJack Horseman’, new series ‘Long Story Short’ will have all-star cast of Jewish voice actors including Abbi Jacobson and Paul Reiser
July 16, 2025 16:33
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the masterful Jewish writer behind the hit animation series BoJack Horseman, is returning to Netflix with a new animated sitcom inspired by his own meshugana Jewish family.
Long Story Short, premiering on 22 August, follows the Schwooper family over a period of several decades, jumping back and forth between the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of the three Schwooper siblings: Yoshi, Shira and Avi.
With a star-studded Jewish voice cast including Lisa Edelstein and Paul Reiser as the Schwooper parents and Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson and Max Greenfield as the Schwooper children, Long Story Short is primed to be the biggest animated Jewish sitcom ever made.
“I felt like I wanted it to be a specific family, and I wanted them to be Jewish and from Northern California, mainly because I’m Jewish and from Northern California, so I could write authentically about that world,” writer Bob-Waksberg told Variety last month. "There are Jewish characters that don’t conform to my experience, which is fine, but I wanted to tell a story about Jews who feel like being Jewish is a part of their lives. It’s not just an additional flavor label you can throw on. It’s who they are.”
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