Paul Rust a video for "Song Away" by Hockey. He is also the lead singer and bass player in the comedy rock duo Don't Stop or We'll Die with fellow comedian Michael Cassady. Until his death, the band also featured the late Harris Wittels on drums. In November 2010, Rust appeared in the Comedy Central sketch comedy special "This Show Will Get You High", created by and starring Matt Besser. He and Paul Reubens co-wrote the Pee-Wee Herman film "Pee-wee's Big Holiday", which was released in 2016. Rust appears as a frequent guest on the "Comedy Bang! Bang!" podcast, where he is
Paul Reubens played a recurring role on the TV series "Murphy Brown". The role earned him positive reviews and his first and only non-Pee-wee Emmy nomination, for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He appeared six times on the show between 1995 and 1997. Afterward, Reubens began working on an NBC pilot entitled "Meet the Muckles", a show that would be based on "You Can't Take It with You". The project got stuck in development hell, and was later dropped when Reubens' ideas grew too elaborate and expensive, although Philip Rosenthal blamed NBC's negative response on Reubens being on a "blacklist".