[APPLAUSE]
JIMMY KIMMEL: How are you doing?
PAUL REUBENS: I'm doing great.
I'm doing really good.
I'm really happy to be here.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You know, we ran into each other
at dinner in Phoenix, Arizona.
PAUL REUBENS: You and I? JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes.
PAUL REUBENS: No, I'm just kidding.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You don't remember that?
PAUL REUBENS: I was just testing that.
Yeah, no.
That was so odd and cool.
JIMMY KIMMEL: It was very cool.
It was, I was at a restaurant with my family and my daughter,
Katie, who's now 28 years old--
I think she was 27 at the time.
And she grew up.
I showed her all the shows.
And now I show my younger kids.
And I heard you were coming, I was like,
oh, I wonder if we get him to come eat with us.
PAUL REUBENS: And when I got there,
they said, oh, Jimmy Kimmel's waiting for you.
And I thought I was getting punked or something.
I didn't really believe that.
And he went-- nodded, and I looked over,
and there you were it. I was so weird.
JIMMY KIMMEL: There we were, at Pizzeria Bianco,
enjoying pizza together.
That was a lot of fun.
PAUL REUBENS: That was delicious.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And by the way, I would also
like to say congratulations on the 35th anniversary
of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." [APPLAUSE]
PAUL REUBENS: Thank you.
Thank you.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I can't believe it's been 35 years.
PAUL REUBENS: Well, not many people understand that I was
only eight when I made that.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You were just a little boy
when you made that one.
PAUL REUBENS: I was a tall eight.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I think a lot of people
don't understand that you made the TV show after you
made the movie, right?
PAUL REUBENS: That's right.
I did the opposite.
Most people go from the movies--
from television into the movies.
I went from movies into television.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And I'm glad you're talking about it,
and I'm glad you're here to talk about it, because that movie is
one of the greatest ever. PAUL REUBENS: Oh, thank you.
Yeah. JIMMY KIMMEL: It really is.
PAUL REUBENS: Thank you.
Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
I get so much feedback from people about your show,
doing your show.
People always say to me, I love this,
I love that, different things that I did on your show
in the past. JIMMY KIMMEL: Really?
Oh, that's nice.
PAUL REUBENS: One of the things people
talked to me the most about is something-- we put me
into an old educational film.
It was something.
I think it was called Banana Bananaland
or something like that.
Do you remember that?
JIMMY KIMMEL: Bananaland.
Hmm.
[HARP MUSIC]
NARRATOR: Some of the capital cities of Bananaland
were as large as Jacksonville, Florida.
PAUL REUBENS: Wow!
That big?
Heads up, Bananaland.
NARRATOR: The streets and public squares where well laid out
and beautifully planned.
PAUL REUBENS: Honk, honk.
Clear the sidewalk.
Banana car coming through.
[CAR PEELING OUT]
NARRATOR: Bananas are shipped by rail across country
in special cars that are kept cool in summer, warm in winter.
[HARP MUSIC]
JIMMY KIMMEL: Wow.
That's something.
Wow.
PAUL REUBENS: Yeah, a trip down memory lane.
JIMMY KIMMEL: It really was.
The one I always remember is when we made you a contestant
on "America's Got Talent."
Do you remember that? PAUL REUBENS: Oh, wow.
Do I?
[HARP MUSIC]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The knives.
[SOUND OF KNIVES BEING THROWN]
[HARP MUSIC]
JIMMY KIMMEL: We got some letters about that one.
That's for sure.
PAUL REUBENS: Knives out.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Hey, do you remember?
Do you remember that time when I congratulated
you on the 35th anniversary of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure?"
PAUL REUBENS: That sounds so familiar.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yeah.
PAUL REUBENS: Do I?
Hmm.
[HARP MUSIC]
JIMMY KIMMEL: And, by the way, I would also
like to say congratulations on the 35th anniversary
of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." [APPLAUSE]
PAUL REUBENS: Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I can't believe it's been--
[HARP MUSIC]
That-- that was a classic.
PAUL REUBENS: Yeah.
It's all coming flooding back to me now.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Is it?
PAUL REUBENS: Do you remember the time
that I cut off Guillermo's tie and then
made a fool out of him?
JIMMY KIMMEL: Huh.
No, I actually don't remember that.
PAUL REUBENS: I don't remember that one either.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You don't remember that?
No, I don't remember that one. PAUL REUBENS: Oh, I remember.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You do? PAUL REUBENS: Yeah.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I wish I could remember.
[HARP MUSIC]
[APPLAUSE]
[HARP MUSIC]
That's right.
This piece of a tie brings back those memories.
Will you be sharing these memories?
I know you're writing a memoir, right?
PAUL REUBENS: I am? JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes.
You are. PAUL REUBENS: Yes, I am.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Will this be about Pee-Wee or Paul, the memoir?
PAUL REUBENS: Well, you know, it's about both of us.
But I have to say, when I'm writing it,
I get all confused with which story,
and who I am in each story, and I'm in the middle of something.
I love this story.
JIMMY KIMMEL: It sounds like you might
need to see a psychiatrist, is really what it sounds like.
PAUL REUBENS: Yes, it really does.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And on the show, this 35th anniversary
show, what's the plan for that?
What will people see?
You watch the movie.
PAUL REUBENS: You watch a movie.
And then I'm going to come out and tell
never-before-heard stories about the movie.
JIMMY KIMMEL: These are stories you've
never told in public before.
PAUL REUBENS: I've never told before.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Behind-the-scenes stuff.
Will there be a Q&A?
PAUL REUBENS: I know you're fishing around for me to tell
you some of the stories.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I would love for you to tell us something.
PAUL REUBENS: But I can't. They're never--
JIMMY KIMMEL: Well, give us one, because I've
got to tell you something--
PAUL REUBENS: They would really have to beg me.
JIMMY KIMMEL: --I think all the shows
are sold out already, right? PAUL REUBENS: Yeah.
Yeah.
No, honestly, I tried to cancel coming here.
But you can't cancel the day before--
JIMMY KIMMEL: There's no reason to promote.
Yes. But tell us one story for free.
PAUL REUBENS: Good luck trying to get a ticket to the show.
One of the stories--
well, these are the cut stories.
JIMMY KIMMEL: OK, give me a cut story, a leftover.
PAUL REUBENS: There's a character in the movie
called Large Marge.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes, Large Marge.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
PAUL REUBENS: Me and the director
Tim Burton told the hair department
we want Large Marge's hair to look like Don King.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Really?
PAUL REUBENS: Yeah.
Yeah.
They don't know who Don King is.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, I hope-- oh, well, maybe people
don't know who Don King is.
Suffice to say his hair is crazy.
PAUL REUBENS: His hair looks just like Large Marge's hair.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And Tim Burton was the director, which is--
JIMMY KIMMEL: Tim Burton was 27 years old.
PAUL REUBENS: Wow.
JIMMY KIMMEL: It was Tim's first feature
film, directorial debut.
JIMMY KIMMEL: How did you end up hooking up with Tim Burton
to do this movie?
PAUL REUBENS: Oh, you'll have to come see the show.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, I see. All right.
PAUL REUBENS: That's a long story.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Will you have celebrity guests on stage
with you?
PAUL REUBENS: Yes.
I have people that are flying to each city, Morgan Fairchild,
different people that are in the movie,
James Brolan, people that will be in each city.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Great.
PAUL REUBENS: And then my understudy, just
coincidentally, is a celebrity.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Who?
PAUL REUBENS: Well, in case I were to get sick.
And he knows almost nothing about the movie.
So I'm hoping that he doesn't have to go on.
But it's Matthew Broderick.
JIMMY KIMMEL: He is your understudy.
He will be traveling with you from city to city?
PAUL REUBENS: Yes.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And then something happens--
I don't know-- you can talk about Ferris
Bueller or something like that. PAUL REUBENS: Yeah.
I don't actually know who he is.
But--
JIMMY KIMMEL: He's very talented.
PAUL REUBENS: Is he?
JIMMY KIMMEL: You're going to like him a lot.
PAUL REUBENS: Oh, he was very highly recommended.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Well, I would say go get tickets to this show.
But the tickets, are there any tickets remaining?
PAUL REUBENS: No. No.
No. JIMMY KIMMEL: No tickets.
PAUL REUBENS: No, it's impossible.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You will not be able
see "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," 35th anniversary tour.
But if you already have tickets, it
starts February 14th at The New Mark
Theater in Portland, Oregon.
Paul Reubens, everybody.
Thank you, Paul.
We'll be back for "Big Thief."