Pee-wee Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens.
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Pee-wee Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens.
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Pee-Wee Herman is best known for his films and television series during the 1980s.
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The childlike Pee-wee Herman character developed as a stage act that quickly led to an HBO special in 1981.
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Reubens thought the name Pee-wee Herman was a name that sounded too real to be made up, and like a real name a parent would give a child that they didn't really care about.
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Pee-Wee Herman went on to say that everyone in his family has a first name that begins with an "H" except for him.
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Pee-Wee Herman's age has never been explicitly stated; although, he once proclaimed on The Pee-wee Herman Show, "I'm the luckiest boy in the world".
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Pee-Wee Herman played vengeful tricks in the aforementioned film and occasionally threw childish tantrums on Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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Pee-Wee Herman first plays a rude receptionist in the film, spewing obscenities at police and being arrested.
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The Pee-wee Herman Show played for five sellout months at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, whereupon HBO filmed it and aired it as a special on September 11,1981.
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In 1983, Pee-wee Herman traveled the United States with The Pee-wee Herman Show, making highly publicized stops at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and Caroline's in New York City.
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Pee-Wee Herman began writing about Herman's love for his bike and his efforts to locate it once it was stolen.
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In reality, the show had been cancelled in 1990 due to a combination of multiple complaints of overworked crew members and a feeling that the Pee-Wee Herman character had run its course, which ultimately resulted in Reubens deciding against a sixth season.
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Pee-Wee Herman 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.
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Pee-Wee Herman first announced he had finished the script on Late Show with David Letterman, and later revealed further details to Time magazine reporter Dennis Van Tine.
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Pee-Wee Herman stated that filming of the movie has not started yet, but hopes to begin filming in the next couple of months.
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Pee-Wee Herman called it a "Valley of the Dolls Pee-wee" because "it has things certainly inspired by, if not outright lifted from, that movie".
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Pee-Wee Herman has a hit single and gets brought out to Hollywood to make musical movies, kind of like they did with Elvis.
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The Pee-wee Herman Stage Show: The Return opened on January 12,2010 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles for a limited four-week schedule.
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Pee-wee Herman returned to WWE at WrestleMania XXVII in a segment with The Rock and Gene Okerlund in which he admitted to being John Cena's number one fan.
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Pee-Wee Herman has said that one of the two films opens in prison.
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Pee-Wee Herman has said that using CGI for "updating" the puppets' looks could be an option, but it all depended on the budget the films would have.
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Pee-wee Herman character has received various honors, particularly during his peak fame in the late 1980s.
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In 1988, Pee-wee Herman was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; under the category of motion pictures, it can be found at 6562 Hollywood Blvd.
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Pee-Wee Herman even refused to endorse candy bars and other kinds of junk food, while trying to develop his own sugar-free cereal, "Pee-Wee Chow, " a product that would have been produced by Ralston Purina; Pee-Wee Chow never made it to market after failing a blind test.
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