question: What is the name of the actor who played Pee-wee Herman on Pee-wee's Playhouse?
answer: Paul Reubens
context: Title: Pee-wee's Big Holiday
  Passage: Pee-wee's Big Holiday is a 2016 American adventure comedy film directed by John Lee and written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust.  The film stars Reubens as Pee-wee Herman.  The film was released on March 18, 2016, on Netflix.
  Title: Paul Reubens
  Passage: Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman.  Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor.  In 1982, Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing for years.  The show was called "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and it ran for five sold-out months with HBO producing a successful special about it.  Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade, Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee.  In 1985 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial and critical success, and soon developed into a cult film. " Big Top Pee-wee", 1988's sequel, was less successful than its predecessor.  Between 1986 and 1990, Reubens starred as Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children's program "Pee-wee's Playhouse".
  Title: Lynne Marie Stewart
  Passage: Lynne Marie Stewart (born December 14, 1946) is an American film, stage, television and voice actress, best known for her performance as Miss Yvonne, the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppet Land.  She originated the role in the 1981 stage show "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and on the CBS television show "Pee-wee's Playhouse".  She returned to the role in the 2010 Los Angeles stage revival and returned again to play the role in the Broadway production which opened in November 2010 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
  Title: Joey Miyashima
  Passage: Joey Miyashima (born November 18, 1957) is a Japanese American television and film actor.  Miyashima played Pee-wee Herman's Japanese pen pal, Oki Doki, in "Accidental Playhouse", an episode of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse".  He had a role in an episode ("9 Minutes and 52 Seconds Over Tokyo") of "The Tracey Ullman Show", and another in its spin-off, "The Simpsons", as the voice of Toshiro, the apprentice chef, in the episode called "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish".  In 2006, he played the role of Principal Dave Matsui in the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical", and reprised it in "" (2008).  In 2009 he had a cameo as a police officer in the new DCOM "Dadnapped".
  Title: Pee-wee Herman
  Passage: Pee-wee Aloysius Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens.  He is best known for his two television series and film series during the 1980s.  The childlike Pee-wee Herman character developed as a stage act that quickly led to an HBO special in 1981.  As the stage performance gained further popularity, Reubens took the character to motion picture with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" in 1985, toning down the adult innuendo for the appeal of children.  This paved the way for "Pee-wee's Playhouse", an Emmy Award-winning children's series that ran on CBS from 1986 to 1991.  Another film, "Big Top Pee-wee", was released in 1988.
  Title: Phil Hartman
  Passage: Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman (September 24, 1948May 28, 1998; born Hartmann) was a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist.  Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States in 1958.  After graduating from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America.  Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman.  Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show "Pee-wee's Playhouse".
  Title: Big Top Pee-wee
  Passage: Big Top Pee-wee is a 1988 American comedy film and the sequel to "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), and stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, with supporting roles done by Susan Tyrrell, Kris Kristofferson, and introducing Valeria Golino as Gina Piccolapupula.  The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman (although he also scored "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", he could not use any themes from that movie due to "Big Top Pee-wee" being produced by another studio).
  Title: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  Passage: Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length film directing debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman with supporting roles provided by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen.  Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol.  Based on the 1948 Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief", it is the tale of Pee-wee Herman embarking on a nationwide adventure in search for his stolen bicycle.
  Title: Pee-wee's Playhouse
  Passage: Pee-wee's Playhouse was an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the childlike Pee-wee Herman which ran from 1986 to 1991 on Saturday mornings on CBS.  The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the TV special "The Pee-wee Herman Show", produced for HBO, which was similar in style but featured much more adult humor.
  Title: The Pee-wee Herman Show
  Passage: The Pee-wee Herman Show is a stage show developed by Paul Reubens in 1980.  It marks the first significant appearance of his comedic fictional character, Pee-wee Herman, five years before "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", and six years before "Pee-wee's Playhouse".  The show initially debuted as a midnight show February 1981 at the Groundlings theater, and was later moved to Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre, where the HBO cable network taped one of the shows and aired it as a special that year.  This TV special was released on DVD by Image Entertainment July 18, 2006.  This nightclub show had more adult humor than the later children's TV series.
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