Paul Reubens
Jewish Name -
Paul Rubenfeld
Paul
Reubens is an American actor, writer,
film producer, and comedian, best known for his character
Pee-wee
Herman.
Paul Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in
the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and
stage actor. In 1982,
Paul Reubens put up a show about a character
Paul Reubens had been developing during the last few years. The show
was called The Pee-wee Herman Show and it ran for five sellout
months with HBO producing a successful special with it. Pee-wee
became an instant cult figure and for the next decade
Paul Reubens
would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his
public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. In 1985 Pee-wee's Big
Adventure, directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial
success and, despite receiving mixed reviews, it developed into a
cult film. Big Top Pee-wee, 1988's sequel, was less successful than
its predecessor. Between 1986 and 1990,
Paul Reubens starred as
Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children's program Pee-wee's
Playhouse.
Paul Reubens was
born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27,
1952.
In July 1991, after deciding to take a few years' sabbatical from
Pee-wee,
Paul Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult
theater in Sarasota, Florida. The arrest set off a chain reaction of
national media attention that changed the general public's view of
Paul Reubens and Pee-wee.[1] The arrest postponed
Paul Reubens'
engagement in big projects until 1999, when
Paul Reubens appeared in
the big-budget Mystery Men and Blow and started giving interviews as
himself rather than as Pee-wee.
Since 2006,
Paul Reubens has been making cameos and guest
appearances in numerous projects, such as Reno 911!, 30 Rock, Dirt,
and Pushing Daisies. Since the 1990s,
Paul Reubens has worked on two
possible Pee-wee films — one dark and adult, dubbed The Pee-wee
Herman Story, and one a family-friendly epic adventure called Pee-wee's
Playhouse: The Movie.[2] In 2010,
Paul Reubens starred on Broadway
in The Pee-wee Herman Show.
Early life and education
Paul Reubens as a high school senior, 1970.
Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld in Peekskill, New York, and
grew up in Sarasota, Florida, where his parents, Judy and Milton,
owned a lamp store. His mother, Judy, was a teacher and his father,
Milton, an automobile salesperson who had flown for Britain's Royal
Air Force and for the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, later
becoming one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force during
the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[3] Paul has two younger siblings, Luke
(born 1958), who is a dog trainer,[4] and Abby (born 1953),[5] who
is an attorney, and board member of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Tennessee.[6][7][8]
Paul Reubens spent a significant amount of his childhood in Oneonta,
New York. As a child,
Paul Reubens frequented the Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus, whose winter headquarters was in Sarasota.
The circus's atmosphere sparked
Paul Reubens' interest in
entertainment and influenced his later work.[9][10]
Paul Reubens
also loved to watch reruns of I Love Lucy, which made him want to
make people laugh.[11] At age five,
Paul Reubens asked his father to
build him a stage, where
Paul Reubens and his siblings would put on
plays.[12]
Paul Reubens attended Sarasota High School, where
Paul Reubens was
named president of the National Thespian Society.
Paul Reubens also
got in Northwestern University's summer program for gifted
high-school students and joined the local Asolo Theater and Players
of Sarasota Theater, appearing several plays.[4] After graduation,
Paul Reubens attended Boston University and began auditioning for
acting-schools.
Paul Reubens was turned down by several schools,
including Juilliard, and twice by Carnegie-Mellon, before being
accepted at the California Institute of the Arts and moving to
California, where
Paul Reubens worked in restaurant kitchens and as
a Fuller Brush salesman.[4]
In the 1970s,
Paul Reubens performed at local comedy clubs and made
four guest appearances on The Gong Show as part of a boy–girl act
Paul Reubens had developed with Charlotte McGinnis, called The
Hilarious Betty and Eddie.[4]
Paul Reubens soon joined the Los
Angeles–based improvisational comedy team The Groundlings and
remained a member for six years, working with Bob McClurg, John
Paragon, Susan Barnes, and Phil Hartman. Hartman and
Paul Reubens
became friends, often writing and working on material together.[13]
In 1980,
Paul Reubens had a small part as a waiter in The Blues
Brothers.
Pee-wee Herman
Main article: Pee-wee Herman
Paul Reubens giving an interview in character at the 1988 Academy
Awards
The character of "Pee-wee Herman" first originated during a 1978
improvisation exercise with The Groundlings, where
Paul Reubens came
up with the idea of a man who wanted to be a comic, but was so inept
at telling jokes that it was obvious to the audience that Paul
Reubens would never make it.[14] Fellow Groundling Phil Hartman
would afterwards help
Paul Reubens develop the character while
another Groundling, John Paragon, would help write the show.[15][16]
Despite having been compared to other famous characters, such as
Hergé's Tintin and Collodi's Pinocchio,[17][18]
Paul Reubens says
that there is no specific source for "Pee-wee" but rather a
collection of ideas. Pee-wee's voice originated in 1970 when Paul
Reubens appeared in a production of Life With Father, where Paul
Reubens was cast as one of the most obnoxious characters in the
play, for which
Paul Reubens adopted a cartoon-like way of speaking
that would become Pee-wee's.[19][20] Pee-wee's name is a mixture of
a one-inch Pee Wee brand harmonica
Paul Reubens had as a child while
Herman was the surname of an energetic boy
Paul Reubens knew from
his youth.[9][20] The first small grey suit Pee-wee ever wore had
been handmade for director and founder of the Groundlings Gary
Austin, who passed it on to
Paul Reubens, while "someone" handed him
the "little-kid bow tie" before a show.[21][22]
The Pee-wee Herman Show: 1981–1984
Paul Reubens auditioned for Saturday Night Live for the 1980–1981
season, but Gilbert Gottfried, who was a close friend of the show's
producer and had the same acting style as
Paul Reubens, got the
place[12][22] (ironically, Gottfried would later get in trouble for
joking about
Paul Reubens' indecent exposure arrest as an award
presenter at the Emmys).[23]
Paul Reubens was so angry and bitter
that
Paul Reubens decided
Paul Reubens would borrow money and start
his own show in Los Angeles using the character
Paul Reubens had
been developing during the last few years, "Pee-wee Herman".[24]
With the help of other Groundlings like John Paragon, Phil Hartman
and Lynne Marie Stewart, Pee-wee acquired a small group of followers
and
Paul Reubens took his show to The Roxy Theatre where "The
Pee-wee Herman Show" ran for five sellout months, doing midnight
shows for adults and weekly matinees for children, moving into the
mainstream when HBO aired The Pee-wee Herman Show in 1981 as part of
their series On Location.[25]
Paul Reubens also appeared as Pee-wee
in the 1980 film Cheech & Chong's Next Movie.[4]
Paul Reubens' act
had mainly positive reactions and quickly acquired a group of fans,
despite being described as "bizarre",[26] and
Paul Reubens being
described as "the weirdest comedian around".[27] Pee-wee was both
"corny" and "hip", "retrograde" and "avant-garde".[28]
When Pee-wee's fame started growing,
Paul Reubens started to move
away from the spotlight, keeping his name under wraps and making all
his public appearance and interviews in character while billing
Pee-wee as playing himself;
Paul Reubens was trying to "get the
public to think that that was a real person".[14][25] Later on Paul
Reubens would even prefer his parents be known only as Honey Herman
and Herman Herman.[19] In the early and mid 1980s,
Paul Reubens made
several guest appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as
Pee-wee Herman which gave Pee-wee an even bigger following.[26]
During the mid 1980s,
Paul Reubens traveled the United States with a
whole new The Pee-wee Herman Show, playing notably at the Guthrie
Theater in Minneapolis, Caroline's in New York City and, in 1984, in
front of a full Carnegie Hall.[13]
Pee-wee's Big Adventure: 1985
The success of The Pee-wee Herman Show prompted Warner Bros. to hire
Paul Reubens to write a script for a full-length Pee-wee Herman
film.
Paul Reubens' original idea was to do a remake of Pollyanna,
which
Paul Reubens claims is his favorite film. Half-way through
writing the script,
Paul Reubens noticed everyone at Warner Bros.
had a bike with them, which inspired
Paul Reubens to start on a new
script with Phil Hartman.[29] When
Paul Reubens and the producers of
Pee-wee's Big Adventure saw Tim Burton's work on Vincent and
Frankenweenie, they decided Burton would be an excellent director
for their film.[30] The film tells the story of Pee-wee Herman
embarking on nation-wide adventure in search of his stolen bicycle
and it went on to gross $40,940,662 domestically, recouping almost
six times its $7 million budget, making it a financial success.[31]
At the time of release in 1985, the film received mixed reviews, but
Pee-wee's Big Adventure developed into a cult film.[32]
Pee-wee's Playhouse: 1986–1990
After seeing the success of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, the CBS network
approached
Paul Reubens with an ill-received cartoon series
proposal.[18] In 1986, CBS agreed to sign
Paul Reubens to act,
produce, and direct his live-action children's program, Pee-wee's
Playhouse, with a budget of $325,000 per episode, the same price as
a prime-time sitcom,[25] and no creative interference from CBS;
although CBS did request a few minor changes throughout the
years.[11] After casting actors like Laurence Fishburne and S.
Epatha Merkerson, production began in New York City.[22] The opening
credits of the show were sung by Cyndi Lauper.
Playhouse was designed as an educational yet entertaining and
artistic show for children and, despite being greatly influenced by
1950s shows
Paul Reubens watched as a child like The Rocky and
Bullwinkle Show, The Mickey Mouse Club, Captain Kangaroo and Howdy
Doody, it quickly acquired a dual audience of kids and
grownups.[17][20][21]
Paul Reubens, always trying to make of Pee-wee
a positive role model, was after making a significantly moral show,
one that would teach children the ethics of reciprocity.[21] Paul
Reubens believed that children liked the Playhouse because it was
fast-paced, colorful and "never talked them down"; while parents
liked the Playhouse because it reminded them of the past.[21]
In 1986,
Paul Reubens (billed as Paul Mall) was the voice of the
ship's computer in Flight of the Navigator. In 1987,
Paul Reubens
provided the voice of REX, the main robot in the George Lucas
produced Disneyland attraction, Star Tours,[4] and reprised the role
of Pee-wee Herman in a cameo appearances in the film Back to the
Beach and TV show Sesame Street, the latter of which made a cameo in
Playhouse.[33]
Right after the success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Paul Reubens
began working with Paramount Pictures on a sequel entitled Big Top
Pee-wee.
Paul Reubens and George McGrath's script was directed by
Grease's director Randal Kleiser. The film was not as successful as
its predecessor, receiving mild reviews and doing just over one
third as well in the box office,[34][35] earning only $15
million.[36]
Paul Reubens attended 1988 Academy Awards with Top co-star Valeria
Golino, which stirred rumours that the two were dating.[37][38] The
following year
Paul Reubens exchanged vows at a mock wedding,
presided by Imelda Marcos, in Shangri-La, Doris Duke's mansion in
Honolulu, Hawaii with Duke's adopted daughter Chandi Heffner.[9]
Pee-wee's Playhouse aired from September 13, 1986 until November 10,
1990.
Paul Reubens had originally agreed to do two more seasons
after the third, and when CBS asked
Paul Reubens about the
possibility of a sixth season
Paul Reubens declined, wanting to take
a couple of sabbatical years.[22]
Paul Reubens had been suffering
from burnout from playing Pee-wee full time and for the last few
years had been warning reporters that Pee-wee was temporary and that
Paul Reubens had other ideas
Paul Reubens would like to work on.[4]
Both parties mutually agreed to end the show after five seasons,
which included 45 episodes and a Christmas Special.[39] Playhouse
garnered 15 Emmy Awards, all of them in the Creative Arts Emmy Award
category.[40]
Pee-wee's legacy
Paul Reubens had not always thought of his character as one for
children, but sometime during the mid-1980s,
Paul Reubens started
forming Pee-wee into the best role model
Paul Reubens possibly
could, making of his show a morally positive show that cared about
issues like racial diversity.[21]
Paul Reubens was also careful on
what should be associated to Pee-wee. Being a heavy smoker, Paul
Reubens went to great lengths never to be photographed with a
cigarette in his mouth, even refusing to endorse candy bars and
other kinds of junk food, all the while trying to release his own
sugar-free cereal "Ralston Purina Pee-wee Chow cereal", a project
that died after a blind test.[9]
With his positive attitude and quirkiness, Pee-wee became an instant
cult figure, earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by
1989,[9] and successfully building a Pee-wee franchise, with toys,
clothes and other items generating more than $25 million at its peak
in 1988.[41]
Paul Reubens also published a book as Pee-wee in 1989
called Travels with Pee-Wee.[42] CBS aired reruns of Playhouse until
July 1991, when
Paul Reubens was arrested, pulling from their
schedule the last two remaining reruns.[43] Fox Family Channel
briefly aired reruns of the Playhouse in 1998.[22] In early July
2006, Cartoon Network began running a teaser promo during its Adult
Swim lineup. A later press release and many other promos confirmed
that the show's 45 original episodes would nightly air from Monday
to Thursday starting on that date.[44] Playhouse attracted 1.5
million viewers nightly. In 2007, TV Guide named Playhouse one of
the top 10 TV cult classics of all time.[21] Several children's
television personas cite Pee-wee Herman as an inspiration, including
Blue's Clues's Steve Burns[45] and SpongeBob SquarePants's Stephen
Hillenburg.[46]
In November 2004, all 45 episodes of the Playhouse, plus six
episodes that had never before been released on home video, were
released on DVD split between two box set collections.
Paul Reubens
planned to re-release the DVDs with audio commentaries by the
following year,[47] but this has yet to materialize.
Pee-wee's small glen plaid suits seemed ridiculous during the 1980s,
but since the late 1990s have made him a "style icon",[48] with
fashion houses and designers like Christopher Bailey, Ennio Capasa,
Miuccia Prada,[49] Viktor & Rolf,[50] and Thom Browne creating cut
tight suits with high armholes and short trousers that have been
compared to Pee-wee's.[51] In early 2007 Nike released a collection
of Nike SB sneakers called "Fallen Heroes". The collection was
loosely inspired by Milli Vanilli, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and
Pee-wee Herman. Pee-wee's sneakers use a grey and white color scheme
with red detail, with an illustration on the insole of a man in a
suit sitting alone in a theatre with his hand on his lap suggesting
Paul Reubens' 1991 theatre arrest.[52]
Paul Reubens has mentioned
Paul Reubens has plans for a museum,
which would contain many of the Playhouse sets and props Paul
Reubens still owns.[43]
1991 arrest and retreat from public eye
In July 1991, while visiting with relatives,
Paul Reubens was
arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating while secluded in a
darkened adult theater.[41] Detectives would periodically visit
pornographic theaters to observe the audiences, arresting anyone who
engaged in indecent exposure.[53] After arresting a number of other
men, a detective who had been observing
Paul Reubens stopped him on
his way out. When detectives examined his driver's license, Paul
Reubens told them, "I'm Pee-wee Herman", and offered to do a
children's benefit for the sheriff's office, "to take care of
this".[54] The next day, after a local reporter recognized Paul
Reubens' name,
Paul Reubens' attorney made the same offer to the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune in exchange for withholding the story.[54]
This was not
Paul Reubens' first arrest in the county however; in
1971
Paul Reubens was arrested for loitering and prowling near an
adult theater, though charges were later dropped. His second arrest
was in 1983 when
Paul Reubens was placed on two years' probation for
possession of marijuana, although adjudication was withheld.[55] The
night of the arrest
Paul Reubens fled to Nashville, where his sister
and lawyer lived, and then to New Jersey, where
Paul Reubens would
stay for the following months at his friend Doris Duke's estate.[9]
Paul Reubens had not been in character for a year and a half, but
because CBS was still running reruns of Pee-wee's Playhouse, Paul
Reubens' infamous mug shot, which did not depict the clean-cut look
Paul Reubens had shown for the last decade, shocked the public, and
many thought that the show had been canceled because of the
arrest.[14][55][56] The arrest was widely covered, and both Paul
Reubens and his character became the subject of ridicule. CBS
stopped airing Playhouse, and Disney-MGM Studios suspended a video
that showed Pee-wee explaining how voice-over tracks were made from
its studio tour. Toys "R" Us removed Pee-wee toys from its
stores.[41]
Paul Reubens released a statement denying the charges,
which was largely ignored by the media.[57]
Paul Reubens' attorneys
agreed to a plea in which
Paul Reubens plead no contest, while
maintaining his innocence, so as to avoid what would have been a
highly publicized trial. The plea kept the charge off
Paul Reubens'
record and obligated him to spend seventy-five hours performing
community service, by making an anti-drug public service
announcement that
Paul Reubens would write, produce and finance.[53]
Despite the negative publicity, many artists who knew
Paul Reubens,
such as Cyndi Lauper, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Valeria
Golino, spoke out in his support.[33][41] Bill Cosby defended Paul
Reubens, saying "Whatever [
Paul Reubens has] done, this is being
blown all out of proportion." Other people who knew
Paul Reubens,
such as Playhouse production designer Gary Panter, S. Epatha
Merkerson, and Big Top Pee-wee director Randal Kleiser, also spoke
out against the way
Paul Reubens was treated by the media.[22][33]
Paul Reubens' fans organised support rallies after CBS canceled the
scheduled reruns, with several dozens of "Pee-weeites" picketing in
Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.[41][58] The general public
also appeared to sympathise with
Paul Reubens—the TV news magazine A
Current Affair received "tens of thousands" of responses to a
Pee-wee telephone survey, in which callers supported
Paul Reubens in
a nine-to-one majority.[41]
Paul Reubens remained in a state of
shock for weeks, and was haunted by the arrest for several years,
refusing to give interviews or appear on talk shows.[57][59]
Paul Reubens made a subsequent public appearance as Pee-wee at the
1991 MTV Video Music Awards, where
Paul Reubens asked the audience,
"Heard any good jokes lately?" After
Paul Reubens received a
standing ovation,
Paul Reubens said, "Ha, that's so funny I forgot
to laugh!"
Paul Reubens appeared as Pee-wee once more in 1992, when
Paul Reubens participated in a Grand Ole Opry tribute to Minnie
Pearl.[18][22]
1990s and comeback in Blow
During the 1990s,
Paul Reubens kept a low profile, dedicating
himself to write and collect a variety of things, "everything from
fake food, to lamps",[25] although
Paul Reubens did do some dubbing
and took small parts in films such as 1992's Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and Tim Burton's Batman Returns (
Paul Reubens portrayed the
Penguin's father) and 1996's Matilda and Dunston Checks In. In 1993,
Paul Reubens dubbed for Lock in another one of Burton's productions,
The Nightmare Before Christmas. (
Paul Reubens would later dub Lock
for the video game The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
in 2004.) During the mid-1990s
Paul Reubens landed a recurring role
on the hit TV series Murphy Brown. The role earned him positive
reviews and his first and only non-Pee-wee Emmy nomination for
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
Paul Reubens appeared
six times on the show between 1995–1997. The show brought Paul
Reubens a new interest in acting and
Paul Reubens embarked in his
first big project since Playhouse, a pilot for NBC entitled Meet the
Muckles, a show that would be based on You Can't Take It with You.
The show got stuck in development hell, and was later dropped, when
Paul Reubens' ideas grew too elaborate and expensive, although
Philip Rosenthal blamed NBC's negative on
Paul Reubens being on the
"blacklist".[9]
His several appearances on TV's Murphy Brown opened the door for
Paul Reubens' come-back. By 1999,
Paul Reubens gave several
interviews as himself and made public appearances while promoting
Mystery Men, the first being on The Tonight Show in 1999.[60] Paul
Reubens also starred in Dwight Yoakam's western South of Heaven,
West of Hell as a rapist and cold-blooded killer. In 2001, Paul
Reubens had his first extended television role since Playhouse as
the host of the short-lived ABC TV show You Don't Know Jack, based
on the game of the same name.
Paul Reubens had doubts about the
show, which was considered a risk, but eventually agreed to do it.
The show was cancelled after six episodes due to low ratings.[61]
Paul Reubens' comeback seemed definitive when
Paul Reubens played a
flamboyant hairdresser turned drug dealer in Ted Demme's drama Blow,
which starred Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp. His performance was
praised and
Paul Reubens began receiving scripts for potential movie
projects from various sources.[62][63]
Paul Reubens dated actress Debi Mazar in 1993 after
Paul Reubens
started attending film premieres with her. From 1994 until 1999 Paul
Reubens was rumored to be engaged to Mazar.[64]
Paul Reubens has
since credited Mazar with ending his depression from his arrest.[65]
Pornography arrest: 2002
In November 2002, while filming David La Chapelle's video for Elton
John's "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore",
Paul Reubens learned
that police were at his home with a search warrant, acting on a tip
from a witness in the pornography case against actor Jeffrey
Jones,[66] finding among over 70,000 items of kitsch memorabilia,
two grainy videotapes and dozens of photographs that the city
attorney's office characterized as a collection of child
pornography.[1] Kelly Bush,
Paul Reubens' personal representative at
the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate and
claimed the objects were "Rob Lowe's sex videotape, and a few 30- to
100-year-old kitsch collectible images."[67]
Paul Reubens turned
himself in to the Hollywood division of the LAPD and was charged
with possession of obscene material improperly depicting a child
under the age of 18 in sexual conduct.[68] The District Attorney
looked at
Paul Reubens' collection and computer and found no grounds
for bringing any felony charges against him, while the city
attorney, Rocky Delgadillo brought misdemeanor charges against Paul
Reubens on the last day allowed by the statute.[69]
Paul Reubens was
represented by Hollywood criminal defense lawyer Blair Berk.[70] In
December
Paul Reubens pleaded not guilty through Berk, who also
complained that the city attorney failed to turn over evidence to
the defense, which City Attorney Richard Katz countered that
prosecutors were not required to do until after arraignment, after
which they did; neither side disclosed the contents.[71]
"One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for
one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's
not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The
public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything
that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one
of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile.
Because that's not true."
Paul Reubens on the charges.[25]
In March 2004, child pornography charges were dropped. For the next
three years
Paul Reubens had to register his address with the
sheriff's office and could not be in the company of minors without
their parents' permission.[25]
Paul Reubens later stated that Paul
Reubens was a collector of erotica, including films, muscle
magazines and a sizable collection of mostly homosexual vintage
erotica,[1] such as photographic studies of teen nudes.[25] Paul
Reubens claimed that what the city attorney's office viewed as
pornography,
Paul Reubens considered to be innocent art and that
what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or
oral copulation was in fact a judgmental point of view of the nudes
that
Paul Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not"
performing sexual acts.[25] Being a big collector,
Paul Reubens had
often bought in bulk, with one of his vintage magazines dealers
declaring that "there's no way"
Paul Reubens could have known the
content of each page in the publications
Paul Reubens bought and
that
Paul Reubens recalled
Paul Reubens asking for "physique
magazines, vintage 1960s material, but not things featuring
kids".[1]
Paul Reubens spent the next two years caring for his terminally ill
father in Florida, who died in February 2004 of cancer.[3][72]
Recent career
2004–2008
Paul Reubens has made cameos and guest appearances in numerous
projects.
Paul Reubens played Rick of the citizen's patrol on the
popular Comedy Central show Reno 911!, which gained him a small role
in the 2007 movie Reno 911!: Miami.[73] That same year
Paul Reubens
appeared in the second music video version of The Raconteurs song
"Steady, As She Goes". The video has the band engaging in a comical
soapbox car race, with
Paul Reubens playing the bad guy who
sabotages the race.[74]
In 2007,
Paul Reubens attended his own tribute at the SF Sketchfest,
where
Paul Reubens talked about his career with Ben Fong-Torres.[12]
Paul Reubens also signed with NBC to make a pilot on a show called
Area 57, a sitcom about a passive-aggressive alien,[73] but it was
not picked up for the 2007–2008 season.[75]
Paul Reubens did however
appear on the hit NBC show 30 Rock as an inbred Austrian prince, a
character Tina Fey created for him.[76]
Paul Reubens also made three
guest appearances on FX's show Dirt. This time
Paul Reubens was
recommended for the role by Dirt star and close friend Courteney
Cox. Cox's husband, David Arquette, would then cast
Paul Reubens for
his directorial debut, the 2007 film The Tripper.[72]
Paul Reubens has also had small parts dubbing or making cameos in a
series of Cartoon Network projects such as the 2006 television film
Re-Animated, the animated cartoon series Chowder, Tom Goes to the
Mayor, and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
In 2008,
Paul Reubens was slated to appear as homeopathic
antidepressant salesman Alfredo Aldarisio in the third episode of
Pushing Daisies, but the role was recast with Raúl Esparza.[77][78]
Paul Reubens instead appeared in the role of Oscar Vibenius in the
series' 7th and 9th episodes.
Also during 2008,
Paul Reubens did a PSA for Unscrew America, a
website that aims to getting people to change regular light bulbs
for more energy-efficient ones in the form of CFLs and LED.[79] Paul
Reubens has also been working on David O. Russell's Nailed and Todd
Solondz's Life During Wartime.[80][81]
In 2009,
Paul Reubens voiced Bat-Mite in the Batman: The Brave and
the Bold episode "Legends of the Dark Mite."[82]
2009–present: the new Pee-wee Herman Show and future films
In January 2009
Paul Reubens hinted that negotiations were under way
for his stage show to come back,[83] and in August the return of The
Pee-wee Herman Show was announced.[84]
Paul Reubens said Paul
Reubens felt Pee-wee calling, “I just got up one day and felt like
I’m gonna come back, that was it".[85] The show is also a way to
"introduce Pee-wee to the new generation that didn't know about it",
preparing the way for
Paul Reubens' main project, the Playhouse
movie.[86] Before this comeback,
Paul Reubens' present age and shape
had been pointed out as a possible issue, since Pee-wee's slim
figure and clean skin have been one of his trademarks. But after
appearing for the first time since 1992 as Pee-wee at Spike TV's
2007 Guys' Choice Awards,
Paul Reubens had remained optimistic and
had jokingly said he's no longer nervous about being young Pee-wee
again thanks to digital retouching.[22]
The show was originally scheduled to begin November 8 and continue
until the 29th at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood. Due to high
demand, the show moved to Club Nokia @ LA Live and was scheduled to
run between January 12, 2010 and February 7.[87] To promote the show
Paul Reubens once again gave interviews in character, appearing as a
guest on The Jay Leno Show, The Tonight Show with Conan O' Brien (as
well as O'Brien's subsequent Legally Prohibited Tour) and Jimmy
Kimmel Live! among others. A Twitter account, a Facebook account and
a new website were made for Pee-wee after the show changed
venues.[88]
On November 1, 2010,
Paul Reubens was a special guest star on the
WWE as Pee-wee.[89]
On November 11, 2010, the show relocated to New York for a limited
run at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, selling over $3 million in
advanced tickets.[90] An extra performance was taped for the HBO
network on January 6, 2011 and debuted March 19.[91]
On Jan 15, 2011,
Paul Reubens appeared on Saturday Night Live as
Pee-Wee in an extended and well received segment depicting Andy
Samberg and Pee-wee getting drunk, taking a ride on a mechanical
bull, doing the tequila dance and ambushing Anderson Cooper in an
alley way with a chair.
Upcoming Pee-wee ventures
Ever since
Paul Reubens started giving interviews again after his
2002 arrest,
Paul Reubens has talked about the two scripts Paul
Reubens has written for future Pee-wee Herman films.
Paul Reubens once called his first script The Pee-wee Herman
Story,[9] describing it as a black comedy.
Paul Reubens has also
referred to the script as "dark Pee-wee" or "adult Pee-wee",[11]
with the plot involving Pee-wee becoming famous as a singer after
making a hit single and moving to Hollywood, where "
Paul Reubens
does everything wrong and becomes a big jerk".[92]
Paul Reubens
further explained the film has many "Valley of the Dolls
moments".[63]
Paul Reubens thought this script would be the first
one to start production, but in 2006
Paul Reubens announced Paul
Reubens was to start filming his second script in 2007.[11]
The second film, a family friendly adventure, is called Pee-wee's
Playhouse: The Movie by
Paul Reubens,[24][93] and follows Pee-wee
and his Playhouse friends on a road-trip adventure, meaning that
they would leave the house for the first time and go out into "Puppetland".
All of the original characters of the show, live-action and puppets,
are included in
Paul Reubens' script. The story happens in a fantasy
land that would be reminiscent of H.R. Pufnstuf and The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz.[92] In January 2009,
Paul Reubens told Gary Panter
that the rejected first script of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (which
they co-wrote) could have a movie deal very soon, and that it would
be "90 minutes of incredible beauty".[83] On December 2009, while in
character,
Paul Reubens said this film is “already done, the script
is already fully written; It’s ready to shoot." Most of the film
will take place in Puppetland and claymation might be used.[2]
Although
Paul Reubens hasn't revealed much about the scripts, Paul
Reubens has said that one of the two films opens in prison.[63] Paul
Reubens has also said that using CGI for "updating" the puppets'
looks could be an option, but it all depended on the budget the
films would have.[11]
Paul Reubens once mentioned the possibility of
doing one of the two as an animated film along the lines of The
Polar Express, which uses performance capture technology,
incorporating the movements of live actors into animated
characters.[92]
Paul Reubens approached Pee-wee's Big Adventure director Tim Burton
with one of the scripts and talked to Johnny Depp about the
possibility of having him portray Pee-wee, but they both
declined.[92]
In January 2010,
Paul Reubens reprised his role as Pee-wee and
reused the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse (albeit slightly modified) for
a short sketch on Funny or Die. In the sketch, Pee-wee comes home
and shows off a brand-new iPad given to him by Steve Jobs. This
leads to a long argument between him and his puppet friends, who
point out all of the iPad's disadvantages - even Conky himself
points out its flaws by stating that "it looks like a giant iPhone".
In the end, Pee-wee uses the iPad as a serving tray to hold glasses
of milk and lemonade during a party being held at the Playhouse
hours later.[94] All the voices of the puppet characters are dubbed
in by different actors than the TV series, all except for Globey
whose voice is still done by George McGrath.
In June 2010, various film news sites reported that
Paul Reubens was
working with Judd Apatow on a new Pee-wee Herman feature film.[95]
The new film is said to follow Pee-wee Herman on a road trip.
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