laurence fishburne played cowboy curtis on pee-wee's playhouse.
laurence fishburne played cowboy curtis on pee-wee's playhouse.
who played cowboy curtis on pee-wee's playhouse?
laurence fishburne
the premise of the show was that host pee-wee herman went to play in a fantastic house (situated in puppetland) known as the playhouse, which was filled with toys, gadgets, talking furniture and appliances (e.g., magic screen and chairy), puppet characters (e.g., conky the robot, pterri the baby pteranodon) and jambi (john paragon), a disembodied genie's head who lives in a jeweled box. the playhouse was also visited by a regular cast of human characters, including miss yvonne (lynne marie stewart), reba the mail lady (s. epatha merkerson), captain carl (phil hartman), cowboy curtis (laurence fishburne) and a small group of children, the playhouse gang.
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paul reubens auditioned for "saturday night live" for the 1980–81 season but was not accepted into the cast. instead, he started a stage show with the herman character, which made one of his first appearances in the 1980 film "cheech & chong's next movie." he first plays a rude receptionist in the film, spewing obscenities at police and being arrested. the character is later introduced as pee-wee herman, approaching the stage just before disputing with the film's title characters again. shortly after the film, reubens took pee-wee to the real stage. originally, reubens imbued pee-wee with sexuality that was later toned down as the character made the transition from raucous night club to children's television (though innuendo was still apparent, particularly between the cowboy curtis and miss yvonne characters). the stage show was popularized by hbo when "the pee-wee herman show" aired in 1981.
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