welcome back to the program folks my first guest tonight
has completed a very successful engagement at the tyrone guthrie theater in minneapolis
and begins a run at caroline's here in new york city that's tonight welcome please pee wee herman
nice to see you oh thanks how's it going going pretty well
hey mr letterman first of all i wanted to bring you this it's the fourth of july gift and and it's
for you and it was made by my sister expressly far for you that's very nice your sister is she
older or younger she's younger younger and what is her name her name is hermione herman
everybody in my family's name begins with h my grandfather's vermont hermann
my dad's herman herman my brothers hermann junior my mom's name's hani herman you know
and and what about you you're pee wee well i can't give away what my real name is no
what's your real name no i can't give it away ah no no i really can't because because what
does the p stand for well peewee is just a nickname oh so it's not p period we herman
yeah all these day the years i thought it was p
we herman but it's not it's pee-wee herman well well duh david yeah
aren't you gonna open your present pee-wee as in diminutive yeah yeah uh
this is very nice pee-wee and i will open
uh do you take a little longer to open it up no i'll get right to it it's cool president my sister
made it especially for you that's very nice i just said that a minute ago deja vu i hope you like it
this is very nice this is this is nice this is uh yeah let's see oh i see it's a
tissue dispenser right yeah yeah you could you could use it for a lot of things
no that's beautiful yeah yeah yeah you don't see you don't see craftsmanship like this anymore
no that's beautiful we'll put this right over here we'll leave this on our set and if any of
our guests need a tissue i'll uh i'll be able to offer them one out of that head right over there
you know i gotta i gotta show you one thing here that that because you mentioned that i was just
in minneapolis and and this is this newspaper from minneapolis it's a you know like it tells what's
what's happening in minneapolis and stuff like that and and it has these these ads in the back
you know you you've seen these kind of things that says eligibles you know like like for you know the
to meet people and at least i want to read you this ad because because i i just do so listen
to this if you are not afraid of commitment and if you believe that relationships are like everything
else worthwhile in life requiring time and effort then read on i'm a non-conventional
quality oriented handsome graduate student 30 with eclectic and semi-bohemian tastes
listen to this part i'm sensitive intelligent sincere loyal and very nice i seek a lovely like
woman 24 to 30 for companion significant other and lasting relationship someone who responds
to cinema theater cafe sitting dance tom waits b.b king neon sculpture doctor who junk shops
neon sculpture inner cities unusual stuff outrageous stuff pee-wee herman
look right there yeah
this is an app for somebody who's trying to find a girlfriend and he wants somebody who likes people
yeah uh well that's that's well let's see now people are really beginning to uh you know it's
from your show until this guy made me right here me and me and like this now uh how how do you uh
do you do you want to go over here pee weed yeah we have this really swell special effect all set
up so so you and me can go for a little cruise in the countryside because you know i know you had to
work on fourth of july and i appreciate you coming by so we go over there now yeah over there yeah
just go over right now you you have to go on on this side because i'm gonna drive
should i bring the tissues pee-wee in case we have an accident in the car
so if you just sit down and then he has a lift okay
sedan here we go now here we go peel out peel out
so anyway i just wanted to tell you this one thing because we were going along the other day you know
and so i i was like you know you're trying to figure this thing out i was like talking
about this joke and everything and and i i couldn't figure it out or
anything but what was what was going on or anything so this guy's right on my butt
is that an insult here let's see how he likes this
windshield up ah just kidding okay
david david take the wheel
yeah it is a little bumpy
here comes another one a big giant puddle
could you take the will again i'm kind of feeling a little carter
where peewee and i are gonna go look for a good price on unleaded uh while we do that
you take a look at this we'll be right back welcome back to the program ladies
and gentlemen uh pee-wee herman is here and uh marv albert will be playing
and also pj o'rourke will be joining us
could i have a kleenex pee-wee is this
okay uh that's uh
how uh
you're stuck all over your stuff all over your teeth how do you uh how do you like being in
new york city for the fourth of july i i really like it but except i haven't seen any fireworks
or anything it'll be tonight they'll start tonight yeah they generally shoot them off at night yeah
and uh how you mentioned your family earlier how are they doing they're doing great everybody's
doing great you know i wanted to tell you this other thing too because i'm playing in
this club in new york now you know and it's called caroline's and they have a lot of food there and
everything so so i have to wear this thing because when we're playing around with food and stuff
that they you know the health department has these laws so they make me wear this thing on the thing
and i do it and and so it's it sort of looks sort of spazzy don't you think it doesn't look that bad
it doesn't look too bad no no well these things could come back you know i mean like the you
know the kind with the beads and stuff i'm not good you know but but then maybe they won't too
i i got something else i want to show you too that that's a cool thing because see this
this is this one over great in minneapolis because this is made in minneapolis you know
scotch tape minneapolis and this is the thing thanks okay this is a thing that's called fun
with tape and you can you can play around with tape if you don't have anything to do at home
you could take like a piece of tape like this and you can make it go like this look
see he could do a thing like this and then
you could take another piece of it like this if you want and you could do this
you could do you could do a lot of stuff with it if you want yeah he can do like stuff like this
hello my twin brother
i think kidnappings you see a lot of that in kidnapping
yeah then you can just you know take it off like you know
all right uh now you have some uh one other thing you're gonna do for us is that correct pee-wee
okay uh we have to go away here for a station identification when we come back pee-wee herman
is here you just finished at the tyrone guthrie theater in uh minneapolis and now i'm playing with
my wheel now what kind of a show do you do when you go to the tyrone guthrie theater this is a
legitimate big time place isn't it pee wee yeah yeah yeah it's real it's a real big place it's
it's giants it's a legitimate theater isn't it yeah well it is till i get there and what sort
of a show do you put on for well i just you know i do do stand-up comedy i just go out and act funny
hey i got something i got to show you right now that this is a fun choice to see this
little monster guy right here yes you pull this thing out like this and and you probably
if you know about this don't give it away look look can you get this on the camera
okay shut up why don't you have a heart attack let's look i want to show you this
too can you get a little closer on this thing so so we could see it real close
look look look inside here at this little fish swimming around there
yeah okay well that's it oh i'm sorry i thought there was let me see that kiwi you
don't you don't have to apologize no i thought i thought something else was going to happen
although this is certainly plenty i mean let's do this it was good enough for the folks at the arlo
or at the uh arlo guthrie kyle theater look through this mr letterman you can see a naked
girl in here look look in there you just look at like look in there view artist models for
men only for best view hold close no no i know this would put a silly little mark on my head
here you you you try it no no i'll try it
no you get the wrong end look you know i gotta i gotta do one more thing before i leave because
because i i've been rehearsing and everything for it i'm gonna be making a surfing movie pretty soon
you have this stuff this lint all over your face i know what's that right there
i i i've been working out on the trampoline lately because i'm getting myself in shape
because i'm going to be doing this surfing movie pretty soon so i don't know too many
stuff yet but i know two tricks so i was gonna do a little trampoline i'd love to see them sure
well i'm going to go right over to the trampoline be careful right now i will
okay
come come right out on there these are my spotters that were just selected from the
audience so if you could just take your positions around the around the trampoline and this this is
my trampoline act right now so you know you just gotta watch out just you know like stop me okay
you know in case like i start like flying off the trampoline or anything okay so
here's there's the trampoline act i have to get up here so i don't brain myself
okay no just completely quiet here okay cause this is pretty difficult for me
knee drop
seat drop
need a seat
okay uh no don't applaud i flubbed it up
that was amazing amazing thank you folks uh truly amazing demonstration
we'll be right back folks very nice