Everyone seems to have a personal story about Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman. And those stories seem always to revolve around birthdays. I didn’t know Reubens, but apparently half of the people o…
. And those stories seem always to revolve around birthdays. I didn’t know Reubens, but apparently half of the people on my Facebook timeline did, because they’re all sharing memories about the lengths Reubens would go to every year to celebrate their big day.
Quite honestly, seeing the number of people just on my social media timeline who have a similar Paul Reubens story makes me wonder: If Reubens spent so much time recognizing the birthdays of his hundreds of friends, how did he get anything else done? And yet, to the very end — even through some of those bumpy moments that reminded us that Paul Reubens wasn’t Pee-wee Herman but an honest-to-goodness human being — he was a part of our collective lives.
And yet, Pee-wee Herman wasn’t just for my generation. The character, after all, came out of a more adult-oriented bit Reubens honed as a member of the Groundlings comedy troupe. It began as a parody of children’s hosts, the kind that baby boomers might appreciate. His 1981 HBO special, which introduced Pee-wee Herman to the world, wasn’t even meant for kids.
And let’s take a moment to remember that “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” played on a Saturday morning. On CBS. How delightfully subversive is that? It took someone like Reubens, who threaded that needle of approachability with absurdity, to pull that off.
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