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 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