The Pee-wee Herman Show

The Pee-wee Herman Show
Created byPaul Reubens
StarringPaul Reubens
Phil Hartman
John Paragon
Lynne Marie Stewart
Country of originUnited States
Production
Production locationThe Roxy Theatre
Running time60 minutes
Production companyReubens-Callner Productions
Original release
NetworkHBO
ReleaseSeptember 11, 1981 (1981-09-11)
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The Pee-wee Herman Show is a stage show developed by Paul Reubens in 1980. It is the first significant appearance of his comedic fictional character, Pee-wee Herman, five years before Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and six years before Pee-wee's Playhouse. The show debuted as a midnight show in February 1981 at the Groundlings theater, and was later moved to the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California that same year, in September 1981, where the HBO cable network taped one of the shows and aired it as a special that year. This TV special was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2006. This nightclub show had more adult humor than the later children's television series.