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Post by DayoRemix on Jul 31, 2023 17:45:14 GMT
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Post by davey on Jul 31, 2023 18:28:18 GMT
An absolute one-off. Perhaps he didn’t have a career’s worth of inspiration to keep building on, but for a time his work was just about the most inspired corner our entire culture.
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Post by loveless on Jul 31, 2023 18:47:37 GMT
He was so many things...how he popped up as this sort of subversive character in things like The Blues Brothers and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (and Nice Dreams), and eventually became this wonderfully bizarro children's entertainer who...well, I never stopped laughing. So many of the gags in Big Adventure are just so singular and...evergreen.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 31, 2023 18:52:16 GMT
if "...big adventure" was all he did I'd still be crushed. well, HBO has an end to that doc they're supposedly making. I'll be hitting youtube later. I really liked seeing him on Talk Shows these last few years. Paul Reubens seemed to have made his peace wtih Pee-Wee. what once must have seemed a mixed blessing seemed to have become a real blessing over time. Looking at "X" today I was reminded of Twitter at it's best. Pee Wee posting silly things or remembering people with kindness.
He brightened up the world.
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Post by davey on Jul 31, 2023 19:27:42 GMT
I can’t imagine being a child seeing Pee Wee’s Playhouse as a formative thing. It was such a deconstruction of the shows we’d all been raised with - but to have not seen Captain Kangaroo, Bozo, Mr. Rogers, Howdy Doody, or any of the thousands of local children’s tv hosts… what did they make of it?
I’m thankful that I was just the right age to ‘get’ it. All of the subversive subtext that we laughed at, they took at face value. I think. Who knows?
Regardless…he had such a gentle, good-natured touch. It was subversive, but never angry. That was probably as great a an accomplishment as could be had in the David Letterman era.
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Post by loveless on Jul 31, 2023 20:02:19 GMT
I also thought he handled his sort of "bottom" and comeback like an absolute champ. I think he had an unusual understanding of all the games of showbiz as well as the very real goodwill so many felt towards him.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 1, 2023 13:47:12 GMT
Gone to that great porn theatre in the sky.
I didn't know there was a Residents connection either.
RIP
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 1, 2023 14:41:07 GMT
It's a kind of realisation of the disconnect between the US and the UK when you see so many posts on social media about someone's death, and over here he we have the vague knowledge that he was a children's entertainer who was caught in a porn theatre or something. Even all the programmes/people mentioned in davey's post, it sounds like a Chris Morris news item.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 1, 2023 15:46:20 GMT
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (and Nice Dreams) He SAVED Nice Dreams, as far as I was concerned. His character and Michael Winslow's Hendrix cameo were the only bits I remember laughing at. (Next Movie was great, though.)
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 1, 2023 19:10:38 GMT
here's one of my favorite bits from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. click on "watch on youtube" or the pet store animals will perish!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 1, 2023 19:13:25 GMT
the disconnect between the US and the UK It's pretty big in this particular case, isn't it? I vaguely remember him as a kind of weird US 'entertainer' who got into trouble showing off his privates about 30 years ago - and now it's all THIS
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 1, 2023 19:14:48 GMT
You all really should see Pee Wee's Big Adventure. SO much fun, and virtually un-dated.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 1, 2023 19:18:46 GMT
Yeah, I'm quite keen to see it now. I didn't realise there was so much love for him.
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 1, 2023 19:38:44 GMT
neither did WE, frankly. i've got a hunch HE knew!
I guess LOTS of people grew up with his Kid's show.
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 1, 2023 20:21:28 GMT
this is "the luckiest boy in the world" from the end of "the pee wee herman show" as it aired on HBO. they did it at the Groundlings theater on Melrose but it had moved to the Roxy by the time it got to HBO. not exactly an overnight success but things moved pretty fast for him after that.
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