Paul Reubens Paul Reubens Paul Reubens (; né Rubenfeld; born August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing for years. The show was called "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and it ran for five sold-out months with HBO producing a successful special about it. Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the
Everything Is Terrible! live-action television pilot starring Paul Reubens entitled "Gigglefudge, USA!", which premiered in 11 April 2016 on Adult Swim. Reubens act as a TV host who introduce videos taken from "Memory Hole" (a previous collective title). Everything Is Terrible! Everything Is Terrible! is a video blogging website from Los Angeles, CA, that features unusual, dated, and campy clips of VHS tapes from the late 20th century and early 21st century. The project was founded in 2000 by a group of friends (Nicholas Maier and Dimitri Simakis) while at Ohio University. "Every weekend or free afternoon they get", according to NPR, they