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 that using CGI for "updating" the puppets' looks could be an option, but it all depended on the budget the films would have. Reubens once mentioned the possibility of doing one of the two as an animated film along the lines of "The Polar Express", which uses performance capture technology, incorporating the movements of live actors into animated characters. Reubens approached "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" director Tim Burton with one of the scripts and talked to Johnny Depp about the possibility of having him portray Pee-wee, but Burton was too busy, and Depp said he would have to think about it.