Pee Wee Herman tweets his way back to the (Big) Top

I know nostalgia can be a cloud. Like when your friend says, “Hook was my favorite movie as a kid!” and you’re like, “Please never watch it again! You will be depressed!” But then they don’t listen, and their cloud dissipates, and they lose their will to live and become drug addicts, and you never see them again. That happens to me like once a day. My point is that doesn’t happen with Pee Wee Herman, because he was genuinely great. And now he’s back! In tweet-form!

You can read Pee Wee’s subsequent tweets here. Click after the jump to watch Pee Wee Herman’s appearance on The Jay Leno Show. Pee Wee appeared on Leno to talk about his live come back show, and then he told some kind of sad stories from his childhood.

For some reason I find the story about Pee Wee Herman’s record very sad. Maybe it’s because it’s kind of a metaphor for Paul Reubens himself, who’s career was temporarily shattered. Let’s talk about the future, not the past! At least Jay Leno didn’t repeat the Kanye episode and ask Pee Wee Herman about his dead mother.