/ Xeni Jardin / 10:12 am Sun Jan 16, 2011

Pee Wee Herman + Andy Samberg + Anderson Cooper = best SNL EVAR

Poor Anderson Cooper. Watch: "Andy and Pee-Wee's Night Out." Here's a Hulu link. This is the funniest chunk of SNL I can recall in a long time. (* region-blocked for non-US, sucks, sorry, if so try this alternate link or this one, while it lasts).

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  1. the link I clicked took me to the Andy Samberg Spoof song “I just had Sex”. Might want to check the link.

  5. thank you for making my Sunday a little more awesome (geez Pee Wee doesn’t look like he’s aged a day)

  9. Jeeze, it’s true what they say about Anderson(i never catch his show/no tv); he IS a cutie.
    And of course PeeWee is such a doll. Gotta admit, I kind of like it when he stays just a little more in character. The shots and carousing with Andy are fine, but “That son of a bitch stole my line”, strikes a slightly off note, to me. Maybe just cause it’s so formulaic somehow. Aanyway, they’re gems –love ’em, including Wiig & Armisen. Fred A. slayed me as a closet-cockney-speaking queen of England when Anne H. hosted SNL a month or so back. ..’Shu’up!’ (which I’ll do now).

  10. I watched SNL for the first time in months last night, and got to see this. Just wonderful.

    It was really great to see Pee Wee again. The playhouse gang was just icing on the cake. Really good freaky icing.

  12. And congratulations to Andy Samberg for remembering he can do a digital short without a gross food/sex/misc element. (Anderson’s wounds excepted)

    I fully expected it to turn into a sickening contest of post-drinking syndrome.

    Did the SNL prop department reproduce the playhouse gang or does Pee Wee keep them around in a spare room in case CBS changes their mind?

    3. He just closed his Broadway run, so I imagine they were just spending some extra time in town visiting friends.

    4. They are a part of his stage show which was happening in NYC up until last month I believe.

      Also, CBS owns the shows and owns the rights to air/distribute the shows but they do not own the elements of the show. At least to my knowledge.

  14. At the point where Pee-Wee turns to Andy when they’re standing on the bar, I definitely thought Pee-Wee was gonna hurl.

  16. This really followed the Family Guy joke formula.

    Something Kitchy That Existed (Pee-Wee) + Something Adult (drinking & violence) + Pop Culture Reference (Intervention) all thrown together with no new jokes actually generated.

    Kinda disappointing.

    1. SNL has been doing this kind of formula for some time now, I must say. Hell, I can’t watch the Family Guy without seeing the Simpsons, so for me the same thing; Family Guy isn’t funny.

    1. At the very least, I would think that you would have to be a fan of Pee-Wee Herman in order to consider this funny. It might also help if you knew that Anderson Cooper is a serious TV journalist (or the closest thing that we have to a serious TV journalist here in the U.S.) who does not normally appear in comedy sketches. Apart from that, I don’t think you really need to know any of the other people in this sketch in order to get the humor, such as it is. The enthusiastic reaction to this short film comes mainly from the joy of seeing Pee-Wee Herman again, after his prolonged absence from TV and movies.

  18. I saw one of Pee-Wee’s first (new) performances in Los Angeles, before they knew if they’d be going to Broadway or not. I wasn’t a *huge* fan as a kid – I was a couple years too late – but I was quite familiar with him and watched the show many times as a kid (reruns I presume), and I know the movie of course. The show was a lot of fun, and it was quite original – besides bringing back the same characters, there were very few (if any) jokes that relied on references to earlier material. You could go into the show not being familiar with it at all and not feel left out or anything.

  19. A friend passed this to me over the weekend. Oh yes, it is brilliant. This sketch shows how mult-dimensional Pee-Wee’s character can be, doesn’t it? He’s like the uncle you had as a kid that you wanted to grow up and be like; Mature and wise enough to talk to you when you’re 8 years old like an adult, all the while able to pass jokes to your dad well over your head and seemingly at your expense…

  20. Whoa. As soon as the gang from the playhouse came on screen I instinctively smiled and my eyes moistened. Had no idea how deep those memories went.

  21. I guess I’m feeling my age here, in that the first time I saw Paul Reubens as Pee Wee (as opposed to his appearances with Cheech and Chong) was on the HBO special of his original show (which was similar to the kid’s show, but with a great deal more nudge-nudge-wink-wink to it).

    This strikes me as hilarious, really.

  22. “Pee Wee, *your* friends are here, too…” [sweeping shot takes in Chairy] I rarely tune in live, but I’m glad I did this time. I hooted out loud. HOL! P.S. Mr. Green was pretty forgetting funny, too.

  23. Random assortment of celebs doing irreverent, out-of-character things does not a funny sketch make, regardless of how cool Pee Wee is.

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