Tell Me Stories about the real Pee-wee

He's fine! He sends his love!

But he's shocked how fat Cowboy Curtis has gotten.

He's an old man now. He grew out of playing that character. His time in the spotlight is over but he was blessed with more than most performers.

After the fallout from his porn theatre arrest, he hid out at nutty heiress Doris Duke's farm. Her adopted as an adult daughter was friends with him.

His "child porn" was campy vintage beefcake material — he and John Paragon (Jambi the genie) both had collections. He was charged with a misdemeanor, not a felony, which he would have caught if it was real hardcore CP and not kitschy old "posing" photos.

I do think it was politically motivated, coming after his porn movie theater arrest. Fred Willard also got caught in a stroke house and it didn't dampen his career for a second (as it shouldn't have).

In retrospect, when he outgrew Pee-wee he should have attempted a second career as a character actor under his own name.

I remember watching the E! True Hollywood Story about him. It said that at the time he got arrested in a porn theater, there was a lot of serious crime happening in Sarasota, so why did the cops waste their resources on a victimless crime?

Pee Wee's first appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, before Playhouse, when Pee Wee was still a mostly underground and more subversive act. I love how David at first clearly didn't know what to think of a guy even weirder than himself, even though he found Pee Wee very funny.

Vintage erotica is just a fancy word for old child porn.

Was he supposed to admire the cinematic values and plot of the porno movie instead of masturbating? It's not like he was watching a special viewing of an Ingmar Bergman film for goodness sake.

Tiresome is just a fancy word for R8.

R8- no it isn't.

Wasn't the early 90's also a time in Florida of police harassing gay meetup areas? I remember that happening in Fort Lauderdale as well.

The whole movie theater thing was blown out of proportion by a police force and a reporter wanting to make a name for themselves.

It was disgusting what it did to his reputation and career.

Grown up Paul talking about the origins of Pee Wee.

[quote]His "child porn" was campy vintage beefcake material — he and John Paragon (Jambi the genie) both had collections.

14-17 year old boys are not exactly “beefcake,” IMO. It sounds like they were into twinks.

Is he gay?

He appeared on the revised To Tell the Truth not too long ago.

Also, the material found during the raid of Reubens’ home led investigators to his friend and fellow actor Jeffrey Jones, who was later arrested for taking sexually explicit photos of a 14 year old boy. It sounds like not all the photos Reubens had in his collection were “vintage.”

[quote]Is he gay?

Everyone in Pee Wee’s playhouse was gay, except for Phil Hartman.

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This role is made for Shia Lebeouf, should he accept the challenge.

He was very funny as the doomed Prince Gerhart in his guest appearance on 30 Rock.

Apparently the cops were there for FIVE HOURS waiting for people to come in and then catching them. Several officers.

Imagine justifying that many hours of police time to catch a single man masturbating in the back row.

Ridiculous. It was an adult movie theater playing porn. Let's face it - some of these cops LIKED going there and justified it by catching a diddler or two.

Small town puritanical bullshit. And the cops would come twice a month - what a fucking waste of time and money.

R21, he cannot metabolize zhe grapes!

He makes an appearance in the new Minnie Pearl documentary (which is poorly done).

👉 He's sadly developed arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome in both of his hands 👈

I loved that the name of the chair on Pee-wee's Playhouse was Chairie (sounds like Cherry).

[quote] 14-17 year old boys are not exactly “beefcake,” IMO.

Whatever. He was a collector of vintage erotica and bought the stop in entire lots. He didn’t pour through every item. There’s a good chance he never even saw those images.

^^^ the stuff

And his penis was named Dickie.

And Michael Jackson just slept with those boys, nothing ever happened!

I like Pee-Wee too, but the delusion is strong with some of you people.

Hi false equivalency troll, love your new verified account!

Valeria Golino said he was the best kisser she ever experienced in Big Top Pee-Wee. That had to be a burn to Tom Cruise.

I find Paul Reubens to be an attractive guy. I'm probably in the minority though.

Oh are you Asian, r33?

There are photos out there of him younger, probably 20s/early 30s and not in character where he is an attractive guy. Thin, nice Jewish face, pretty gay looking. I’m going to assume he’s gay. I mean Jerry Lewis was handsome when young too, and not mugging for the camera. Old is another thing.

Scroll down to the bottom. I also think Jerry Seinfeld was handsome, so…

He was busted while jerking off in Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

"Heard any good jokes lately?"

You know it never even crossed my mind that he was gay? How did I miss that!? Suze Orman was another one that I'd somehow never pegged as being one of us.

What are you, headless?!

Were you also surprised about Liberace and Rip Taylor, R39?

Yeah r39, Paul Lynde? Well, he was just a hoot! Gay? You mean like happy? Sure!

He did a very good stint on the TV series Gotham playing Robin Lord Taylor's father. I believe he does the convention circuit now, but only larger ones, and spends days doing meet and greets and signing photos and doing photo ops, and that makes a lot of money for out of work actors. I've heard he's nice but very introverted.

Holy shit, he's 70? I just looked that up. First time I have felt springtime fresh in a LONG time.

It was awful what they put him through. Hopefully he will find a fantastic recurring role he can sink his teeth into.

They are getting ready to film the next White Lotus. It takes place in Thailand. He needs to be on that show as a recurring character.

Kids these days have ZERO concept of camp. They need to learn it, and learn it well. Put all of that transfadia shit behind them, and discover their individual ways of expression.

On Everybody Loves Raymond, he played Robert's future brother-in-law Peter, who owned a comic book store, for a single episode. The character was later played by Chris Elliott, a most unfortunate choice. Why they went with Elliott is beyond comprehension.

The cop in Florida wrote him up for “Masterbating” in Public.

He was pretty funny as a vampire in the original Buffy movie.

A new Pee-wee movie is in the works as well as an HBO documentary.

He was hilarious on Murphy Brown.

Every porn theatre (regardless of what was showing on the screen) had men jerking off (at least) and/or getting blow jobs or hand jobs in the back row. Or in the aisle.

Ah, the 1970s, how much fun we had!

He played the Penguin’s father a bunch of times (“Batman Returns,” “Gotham”).

I think he’s hot too. He was possibly my first crush I loved hisshow as a kid and even had a Pee Wee lunchbox

It must be an old gay thing. I don't get it and find it creepy. Pedo vibes creepy. What is the point of this act?

R53 Just go away. Far far away.

He had a Netflix movie seven years ago and he had real sexual chemistry with Joe Manganiello. The end of the movie was practically a recreation of the end of Sixteen Candles with Pee-wee and Joe sitting across a birthday cake from each other.

His Playhouse Christmas special from 1988 is required viewing.

Guests include kd lang (acting absolutely crazy), Grace Jones, Cher, Oprah, Whoopi, Zsa Zsa, Frankie & Annette, Charo, Little Richard, Magic Johnson and Dinah Shore. It is surreal. Check it out!

R57, you forgot to mention the heavenly intonations of the Del Rubio Triplets!

[quote]What happened to Paul Reubens, who created Pee-wee? For a while, he was everywhere with Pee-wee's Playhouse being popular with kids and adults of all ages.

It was a TV show, OP. On Saturday mornings. This does not equal "everywhere." Most adults knew him from late night talk shows and stand up, but go on.

[quote]Then, there were all the Pee-wee movies, which also did so well.

Is this a joke? The second one bombed and the third one was released in 2016 on Netflix.

[quote]But then . . . he "took time off" and this was followed by the arrest for public exposure and the accusations of child porn. Was any of that real or just the authorities focusing on a successful gay entertainer. (He is gay????)

What is wrong with you????

He liked little pee-wees.

Pee Wee had a lot of celebrity fans, especially among big name comedians. Paul was well-liked by a lot of people and he had a lot of support in his early days. Without knowing that, would you ever imagine the premiere of Pee Wee's Big Adventure would be attended by the likes of Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, and Mr. T?

I don't get it. He's like a retarded/ autistic pedo

R56, the death scene at the end is hilarious. I remember the audience laughing hysterically.

[quote] Pee Wee's first appearances on Late Night with David Letterman,

I remember watching that. Try as he might, Letterman could not get Paul Rubens to step out of his Peewee Herman character. Rubens totally played him and Letterman gave up, laughing.

Well, here's the thing with porn. Millions of us look at it...photos and videos and some of us even still have boxes of old magazines mouldering away in storage units and....we have no way of knowing how old some of those models were when they posed for those photos or shot those videos. Yes, most of them have disclaimers on them "all models are over 18!!!" but that doesn't necessarily mean they really are.

Obvious kiddy porn is disgusting but we've all come across shit that was technically under age whether you realized it or not. That's the dangers of enjoying porn.

Those are the Donatello Triplets R58!

Come to think of it he always did shy away from any sort of intimacy with Dottie.

Prince Gerhardt reminds me of Elon Musk

I think the name Pee-wee worked against him on a subconscious level once the pedo and pervert accusations were made. Pee-wee sounds hilarious as a name because it sounds like a childish name for a tiny dick, as in don't play with your Pee-wee in public.

[quote]Pee Wee had a lot of celebrity fans, especially among big name comedians. Paul was well-liked by a lot of people and he had a lot of support in his early days.

In his early days? Did they later distance themselves from him after the CP allegations, or was it for some other reason?

Pete Buttigieg looks a lot like him. Chasten pointed this out to me admiringly.

Breathe r59

R70, I was just referring to Paul having a lot of support behind him before he became famous. He had a lot of people wanting to work with him, he got an HBO special long before Big Adventure, Letterman gave him free reign on the show, etc.

I honestly don't remember specific people coming to his defense after his arrest, but I never perceived people distancing from him. More just a "this is bullshit, leave him alone" vibe.

I remember after the pornography arrest David Arquette and Courteney Cox made a video defending him. I can't find the video, but here's a short article about it: