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Pee-wee Herman's TV commercial for Japanese securities firm

Tuesday November 27, 2018. 10:01 PM , from BoingBoing
In 1990, Pee-wee Herman recorded this delightful TV commercial for Japanese company Wako Securities. As we know, the following year, Pee-wee (aka Paul Reubens) was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult theater. From an Associated Press article at the time:

″I know this may sound rude coming from a sponsor of his commercials, but he is not that famous in Japan, and the news doesn’t create as much of a fuss as in the United States,″ said Wako Securities Co. spokesman Yoshihei Nishimura.

He said, however, that ″renewing the contract with him is unthinkable, given common sense″

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https://boingboing.net/2018/11/27/pee-wee-hermans-tv-commercia.html
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