What in the HonkeyTonkFunkyTown? @PeeWeeHerman on Twitter is a verified account? big news? new show? On Leno tonight???
PeeWee.com reveals:
Let the fun begin! Pee-wee Herman is inviting you – and all your friends – back to Puppetland. Come join Pee-wee, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi, Chairry and all your favorites, live on stage.
Re-imagined, re-invented, and nuttier than ever, “The Pee-wee Herman Show” will be LA’s theatrical event of 2009, with its live-action cast and puppets galore!
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” will be at the Music Box @ Fonda, on Hollywood Boulevard, from November 8 for a VERY LIMITED engagement. (And tickets are sure to sell out — so book now!)
And some more background for you youngish types:
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” debuted at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981, and later an HBO special (I had on tape and watched a thousand times or so). In 1985, Pee-wee’s first movie “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” was also Tim Burton’s feature film debut and Danny Elfman’s first original film score.
The CBS television series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” premiered in 1986.
“The Pee-wee Herman Show”, and “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” were an homage to an earlier generation’s television classics – “Howdy Doody,” “The Mickey Mouse Club,” “Captain Kangaroo,” “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie,” and “The Shari Lewis Show” — show formats that don’t really exist anymore, where the host would just be playin around doin their thing and the children at home just happened to come visit via camera.And because nothing is real to people under 20 unless it was on Family Guy:
UPDATE: The Leno appearance is below, and he can still pull off doing Pee-Wee without it being creepy (which is important, because Pee-Wee is child like in an innocent way, not a man-child wtf way), but he breaks character a bunch. The character we see here is a Paul Reubens Pee-Wee hybrid. Part Reubens talking about Pee-Wee, part Pee-Wee leaking through to talk about himself. I had heard the indian-pageant story before and its interesting history and all, but its distinctly Reubens history, as Pee-Wee was never a performer to be bitten by any acting bug – he just lives his life and it happens to be entertaining.