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By Adam Nedeff, researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-part documentary Pee-Wee as Himself<\/em>, now available for streaming on HBO Max, chronicles actor Paul Reubens\u2019 unexpected rise to fame as the character Pee-Wee Herman. As the documentary explains, game shows had a small role in the rise of Reubens and his bizarre alter ego.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Reubens\u2019 earliest shots at the big time came from The Gong Show<\/em>. He and actress Charlotte McGinnis appeared on the daytime show as contestants, calling themselves \u201cBetty and Eddie\u2019s Sensational Sound Effects,\u201d in which they acted out an old-time radio show and performed all the necessary sound effects with their mouths. They won the grand prize of $516.32 and were invited by the show\u2019s staff to appear on the nighttime version of The Gong Show<\/em>; they performed the act again and won the grand prize again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many game shows have rules prohibiting contestants from returning, The Gong Show<\/em> creator\/producer Chuck Barris ran his show very differently. There was no limit to how often a person could be a contestant. The only restrictions were that returning contestants had to audition just like anybody else, and that\u00a0returnees had to do a different act for every audition that they attended. Reubens would perform on The Gong Show<\/em>, then devise a new act, and call the show to make an appointment for the next audition. By his own count, Reubens appeared on the show 14 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reubens credited the show with giving him unexpected financial security at an unstable time in his life. Chuck Barris courted members of SAG and AFTRA, two performers\u2019 unions (they have since merged) with the promise that he would pay union members \u201cscale\u201d\u2014an established minimum guaranteed payment for a television performance. At the time it was about $250 for each of those 14 performances. Barris also promised royalty payments and delivered when he sold Gong Show reruns to local stations. Reubens received a windfall check for royalties covering the next several years\u2019 worth of Gong Show<\/em> reruns. Reubens later said that he called off his search for a day job, living off Gong Show<\/em> money while he was developing material for his theater show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reubens created the character of Pee-Wee Herman for a Groundlings performance. Originally, the premise was that Herman was a bad stand-up comic who had trouble remembering the punch lines of his jokes. But Reubens kept adding extra details\u2014playing with toys, throwing candy at the audience, doing bizarre things with his voice\u2014until the character became completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America first met Pee-Wee Herman on another Chuck Barris game show, The Dating Game<\/em>. Shortly after Reubens developed the character, he was looking through classified ads; Chuck Barris\u2019 staff had placed a large ad seeking people to be contestants on their shows, and Reubens had the inspired idea to audition for The Dating Game<\/em>, fully in character as Pee-Wee. Reubens, sporting the now-iconic gray suit and red bowtie, walked into the room among 200 dashing young studs and immediately realized that all the attention was on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman, introduced by host Jim Lange as a comedian whose interests included bird watching, trapeze, and tightrope walking, is still in something of a \u201cbeta testing\u201d stage as a character. Watching The Dating Game<\/em> now, a Pee-Wee Herman fan would notice that the voice isn\u2019t quite right, and that he has thick hair pressed tightly against his head with a gob of grease, as opposed to the short haircut he sported later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Reubens actually successfully made a date on his first appearance. As with The Gong Show<\/em>, he was encouraged to return to The Dating Game<\/em> a few more times. Unlike The Gong Show, <\/em>he was not asked to change a thing for The Dating Game<\/em>. He returned as Pee-Wee Herman. Even if it is not quite the character you know, it\u2019s easy to see why Chuck Barris\u2019 staff was enamored with him. The bachelorette flirtatiously asked, \u201cWhat do you think of when you hear the word \u2018go\u2019\u201d? Pee-Wee responded with an awkward story about driving his Volkswagen Bus to traffic school, and even the other two bachelors get caught on camera chuckling at his odd behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a follow-up, she said she didn\u2019t like it when a date made things \u201ctoo easy\u201d for her and asked Pee-Wee how he\u2019d make things a little tough for her. He pledged to wear a tight-fitting bodysuit under his clothes during their date. Jim Lange audibly lost it, guffawing and taking a second to collect himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the seven years following his last shot at The Dating Game<\/em>, Reubens as Pee-Wee Herman had launched a successful theatre show, adapted that into an HBO special, made 11 show-stealing appearances as a guest on Late Night with David Letterman<\/em>, starred in a feature film, and launched his own Saturday morning network kids\u2019 show. As Pee-Wee fans and keepers of game show history, we take a little pride in the role that Chuck Barris and the game show genre played in his rise to stardom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Nedeff, researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History <\/strong>
\nThe two-part documentary Pee-Wee as Himself, now available for streaming on HBO Max, chronicles actor Paul Reubens\u2019 unexpected rise to fame as the character Pee-Wee Herman. As the documentary explains, game shows had a small role in the rise of Reubens and his bizarre alter ego.
\nReubens\u2019 earliest shots at the big time came from The Gong Show. 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