Think about it. If we lionized Michael Jackson and he diddled a lot of little boys, how are we going to react to Pee Wee Herman dying, when all he did was whack off in a porn theater? I should hope there’s a parade. I should hope that we all end up teary-eyed in the streets, going “HUH HUH!” like Pee Wee did, riding our red bicycles through the streets. Here’s a list of similarities:
- Both unexplicably popular in the late 1980’s.
- Both had homes converted to “be more whimsical”, kid friendly.
- Both assumed false personaes. Michael’s ACTUAL speaking voice was – according to various sources including friend and producer Quincy Jones – was much more along the lines of a normal voiced black guy, like Will Smith. He affected the childish voice to fit his character.
Pee Wee, on the other hand, well, that’s a character too.
- Brilliant fashion sense. Whereas MJ chose flamboyant choices complete with sparkly glove and aviators, Pee Wee stuck to the classics and made us all sit up and take notice and was LIGHT YEARS ahead of Thom Browne in the way he cut his suits. Also, he made the bow tie classy. As classy as one named Pee Wee can make such a thing.
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