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“Pee Wee’s Playhouse” was a surreal, campy Saturday morning kids TV show starring an enthusiastically nerdy man-boy with an infectious chuckle. Twenty years later, Pee-Wee Herman is back with his gang from the Playhouse, this time on Broadway. Kurt asks Paul Reubens, Pee-wee’s creator, about life after Pee-wee.
“Pee Wee’s Playhouse” was a surreal, campy Saturday morning kids TV show starring an enthusiastically nerdy man-boy with an infectious chuckle. Twenty years later, Pee-Wee Herman is back with his gang from the Playhouse, this time on Broadway. Kurt asks Paul Reubens, Pee-wee’s creator, about life after Pee-wee.