Rob Zombie is among the many many artists and followers honoring the late Paul Reubens following the Pee-wee Herman actor’s passing this week. The rocker/filmmaker recalled his expertise engaged on Pee-wee’s Playhouse in an Instagram tribute posted on Monday (July thirty first),

As Zombie has revealed up to now, certainly one of his earliest trade gigs was being a manufacturing assistant on the set of Pee-wee’s Playhouse within the mid ’80s.

He defined on the time that he was largely a runner — “delivering stuff to doing little crap work across the set … lowest rung on the ladder” — however as a Pee-wee Herman fan, it was “cool” to be on the set round Reubens and different comedians like Phil Hartman.

In his tribute, Zombie supplied an anecdote about his sole one-on-one interplay with Reubens:

“So unhappy to listen to about demise of Paul Reubens. He was superb. Again in 1986 I used to be fortunate sufficient to be working at a spot known as Broadcast Arts in NYC after they introduced they had been doing his new present Pee Wee’s Playhouse. It was a really unconventional arrange with the playhouse inbuilt a loft house on Broadway, not a sound stage. I can nonetheless bear in mind his first day within the workplace. Everybody was ready for Pee Wee to step off the elevator when the doorways opened out stepped Paul wanting precisely like his mugshot. He took one take a look at the stay band enjoying ‘Tequila,’ rolled his eyes and walked straight into a gathering. Everybody was bummed. I believed it was hilarious. Solely talked to him as soon as. He requested me the place the restroom was and I mentioned ‘proper over there.’ After the primary season they moved the entire present to California and the remainder is historical past.”

Reubens died on the age of 70 on Sunday (July thirtieth) after privately battling most cancers for a number of years. You’ll be able to learn extra on the legacy of the late actor and comic right here.

Zombie kicks off a co-headlining North American tour with Alice Cooper on August twenty fourth in Dallas. TIckets for the outing, which additionally options Ministry and Filter, can be found right here.

Beneath you’ll be able to see Rob Zombie’s Instagram publish and watch a separate interview through which he mentioned his time engaged on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.