Extra: ‘BoJack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The final eight episodes of “BoJack Horseman” — Netflix’s animated series about a washed-up ’90s sitcom star living in the Hollywood Hills — will be released on January 31. Its protagonist is half-horse, half-man, and its tone is half-jokes, half-existential-angst. That’s a study in contrasts that seems inexplicable—until you talk with the show’s creator, Raphael Bob-Waksberg.

In 2017, he talked with host Kurt Andersen about why so many people who go to Harvard are dummies, the genius of the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and the underappreciated poignancy of “The Simpsons.”

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:07.0	I'm Kurt Anderson, and this is the Studio 360 podcast.
0:16.5	Hi, this is Sam Kim, one of the producers of Studio 360.
0:20.5	On January 31st, Netflix would be releasing the final eight episodes of BoJack Horseman.
0:26.6	I liked the show when it first came out, but I really like the show when it started taking these unexpected, tragic turns.
0:33.2	For six and a half seasons, it balanced showbiz jokes and animal wordplay with unflinching
0:40.0	depictions of trauma, drug addiction, and mental illness.
0:44.0	No, BoJack, just stop.
0:47.4	You are all the things that are wrong with you.
0:50.3	It's not the alcohol or the drugs or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career or when you were a kid.
0:56.7	It's you.
0:58.6	All right?
1:00.4	It's you.
1:03.8	Fuck, man.
1:05.7	What else is there to say?
1:08.0	And somehow, it all worked.
1:10.4	But before we say goodbye to the show, we wanted to revisit an interview we did with the creator
1:14.6	of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob Waxburg.
1:17.6	Kurt talked to him in 2017.
1:19.6	I realized I tend to like my TV comedy the same way I like my coffee, which is very dark,
1:27.7	but also sweetened, which I guess is why I'm such a fan
1:32.3	of BoJack Horseman, which is this animated series on Netflix,
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