The American comedian Paul Rubenshis alter ego Pee Wee Herman He was a television and movie sensation in the 1980s and died July 30 of leukemia and lung cancer, according to his death certificate released Friday.
This information is shared by the media The explosiontestified that the actor also had a long battle with acute myeloid leukemia (a type of blood cancer) and a Cancer metastatic from lung which had finally made him do one insufficiency deadly respiratory system.
“His talent and prolific legacy will forever live on in the pantheon of comedy and in ours hearts as a dear friend,” his relatives said in a statement after the Death by the 70-year-old artist just over a month ago.
Reubens, born in New York in 1952, created the character Peewee In 1978 he was part of the comedy group The Groundlings, which soon became very popular in Los Angeles and later in the rest of the country.
The program “Late Night With David Letterman” (1982) from the NBCwas the first show with which he began to shape Pee-wee’s flamboyant appearance on television, with a gray jacket, red bow tie and a very special, constant laugh that delighted children and adults.
His character was so celebrated that he began touring in 1984 USA in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall in New York.
Between 1986 and 1991 he presented “Pee-wee’s Playhouse“, a colorful children’s show in which Reubens was surrounded by talking toys and furniture that brought joy to children across the country. This format lasted five seasons, left more than 45 episodes and won 22 awards. Emmy.
His career seemed to know no bounds until he was arrested in 1991 for “indecent exhibitionism” when he was caught masturbating in an adult theater in Sarasota, a city in the state Florida in which he grew up. The rooms They were legal, but masturbation there was a crime.
Afterwards, the image of his mugshot and the contents of his file were reproduced by dozens of media outlets and his image was so damaged that the CBS He broke off his contract with the artist and stopped broadcasting “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”.
Since then he has tried unsuccessfully to rebuild his career. Interpreting Supporting roles in films such as Batman Returns (1992), in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and even producing a third film based on his favorite character in 2015.
With information from EFE