Paul Reubens’s performance as Pee-wee Herman gave fans “license to be weird.” At an underground cabaret, he cheered on his community of renegades.
Category: Pee-wee’s Playhouse (TV Program)
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Marty Callner, Director of Comedy Specials and Music Videos, Dies at 78
At HBO in the late 1970s, he established the template for presenting stand-up on the small screen. He then became a mainstay of MTV in its early days.
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Pee-wee Herman Was Exuberant. Paul Reubens Kept Things Quiet.
Speaking with the actor was an entirely different experience than watching him play his career-defining character.
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Paul Reubens, Creator of Pee-wee Herman, Is Dead at 70
With his signature bow tie, short drainpipe pants and flattop hairdo, Pee-wee, as embodied by Mr. Reubens, became enshrined in the popular imagination as a symbol of childlike whimsy.