Conan Remembers Paul Reubens | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I woke up Monday to uh devastating news. that Paul Rubens. uh had passed away and. um you know you lose we lose people. all the time there's always hearing. about people that have died. and. um obviously. uh you you know some you know better. than others but uh it really.

uh hit me that Paul was gone he didn't. tell a lot of us uh I don't think any of. us that that he was sick he's been uh. fighting I think his illness for a. number of years. and. um I. just adored this guy uh and I think. one of the um. things that people need to know is that.

obviously uh the character of PeeWee was. just. mind-numbingly funny and surreal and. hilarious and original he was so funny. as. as Peewee but Paul when he was Paul. Reubens he was so quick so razor sharp. uh such a delightful person a very. sensitive guy. and. um you know I sent this out in a. tweet he would always be sending over on.

anyone's birthday if he knew them even. slightly he would fill their. inbox that day with all these like silly. cartoons and memes about birthday old. Disney cartoons old weird memes about. birthday and cats falling into birthday. cakes and he would do it all day long. and uh it wasn't just me it was just. anybody that he encountered he would do. this for. and uh such a lovely way of we all just.

want to feel seen or recognized and. for someone like Paul to do that for so. many people was just a gorgeous kind of. statement. that's a gorgeous statement of who he. was and uh. I have a bunch of memories but one thing. you know he came to my Christmas party. this year and he brought. I think 15 gifts all individually. wrapped and they're all silly things but.

individually wrapped gifts. um. my Christmas party the year before he. brought a Peewee Chia Pet Head. so I put it out on display this last. year and Paul came and uh. uh it was did you guys see him yeah I. did he was there and uh. and you know it's hard to believe this. is what five months ago whatever. whatever it was but he was at the party. and.

um he brought all these gifts so many. that Paul died on Monday. and. I came upstairs and it really hit me. hard and I walked into the area just. right next to my kitchen. and I suddenly saw it but I remembered. there were we opened up all of them but. there were so many we didn't get to two. and they're still there wrapped and I. can't do it like I cannot open them.

because that feels like uh you know. finishing I don't I just want to leave. them wrapped for right now and I will. unwrap them but I want to leave them. unwrapped but then the other thing that. happened last night. which just is uh. surreal and magical. as you know Sona I'm not a computer. person right and so uh I've been trying. to get better at some guitar licks. recently and I have.

this really good guitar teacher who's. been helping me out and his technique is. he sits with me for like two hours works. with me and then he sends me. these files it's videos of him. explaining once again how to do it so I. don't forget. and I'm not good at this I'm terrible at. this so I you know he sent it to me I. pressed the button to download it and it. went somewhere in my computer and I. wasn't sure where it went. so last night I start looking around in. the file part of my computer which I. never do I never do that yeah this is.

not something I do and I'm looking at. like the Google Chrome and I'm looking. at this and I'm like where would this go. and then I find a big thing of files. and I'm going and I never do this and. I'm going through the whole thing of. files and seeing all these jpeg 33 this. many millibytes whatever I'm sorry. really imbuing those with personality. that they don't have I know I'm sorry I. apologize I'm seeing numbers and I'm. seeing files and some of them are. miscellaneous things we did for the.

covid shows for The Late Night show. during covid some of them are during I. mean just literally just filled with. stuff and then I see this tiny tiny. little square. and it's this little person. and I S and I'm thinking that looks like. Paul. and I click on it and it's a message. from a year ago. that he sent me that I had watched at. the time and it was for my birthday year. before last so it's. you know a year and two months 14 months. ago whatever it was 15 months ago.

and he just suddenly comes up on the. screen and talks to me. and I remember this message because I. loved it so much and saved it but it was. but I had forgotten. and he said he's just him talking to me. and telling me in a way. it felt like he was saying goodbye. because it was him saying you know how. much he values our friendship and I'm. not going to get into you know. details about it but it was such a I was.

just stunned and it was I think six. minutes long and really funny but also. just incredibly sweet. and him talking to me. and I just I when it was done I went in. and I told my wife what I just watched. and she was she started crying and she. said oh my God good for him like he. he went out of his way. to tell people. what they meant to him yeah you know.

what I mean he went out of his way to be. sweet and kind and. um you know I know he's. I don't know and and I'm sure he did. that for a lot of people and it made me. realize what a generous thing to do if. um at the you know this is just a year. ago so he knows he's not well and uh to. do that to to. uh extend yourself like that and do that.

and it's such a gift because we we lose. people and we have no idea yeah how you. know and this this was a this was a nice. thing he did it sounds. crazy but it made me feel so much better. do you know what I mean it's like he. just. showed up on my computer magically and. had this nice conversation with me. um I don't know I just uh I've been. thinking about him constantly. and it felt appropriate. who's on the podcast in 2020.

and again this is Paul this is not. Peewee this is Paul. and I don't know how well you guys. remember it but he's so quick and so. agile and fast and delightful I don't. remember him being pretty humble about. things you know not wanting to overstep. verbally and things like that yeah yeah. it's uh. he's I don't know not we shall not see. his like again.