Pee-wee Herman funding, a finished script, and a director lined up. Reubens is also developing a new TV show, which he says could potentially be an update on the popular "Pee-wee's Playhouse". He added that a more-detailed announcement is "imminent." Reubens told "Short of something unforeseen like the studio going out of business, I think it's very likely both these projects will happen next year." In 2014, it was announced that the film will be on Netflix. Paul Reubens confirmed in a January 2009 interview with "Swindle" magazine that there are indeed negotiations under way for the Pee-wee Herman stage show to
Paul Reubens the Groundlings Gary Austin, who passed it on to Reubens, while "someone" handed him the "little kid bow tie" before a show. Reubens auditioned for "Saturday Night Live" for the 1980–1981 season, but Gilbert Gottfried, who was a close friend of the show's producer and had the same acting style as Reubens, got the place (ironically, Gottfried would later get in trouble for joking about Reubens' indecent exposure arrest as an award presenter at the Emmys). Reubens was so angry and bitter that he decided he would borrow money and start his own show in Los Angeles using the character