Question: The cult movie, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and is less successful sequel, "Big Top Pee-wee" stared which American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian?
Context: Big Top Pee-wee is a 1988 American comedy film and the sequel to "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), and stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, with supporting roles done by Susan Tyrrell, Kris Kristofferson, and introducing Valeria Golino as Gina Piccolapupula.  The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman (although he also scored "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", he could not use any themes from that movie due to "Big Top Pee-wee" being produced by another studio). Timothy Walter Burton ( ; born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.  He is known for his dark, gothic, eccentric, and quirky fantasy films such as "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), the animated musical "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), the biographical film "Ed Wood" (1994), the horror fantasy "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), and later efforts such as "Corpse Bride" (2005), "" (2007), "Dark Shadows" (2012), and "Frankenweenie" (2012).  He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), the superhero films "Batman" (1989) and its first sequel "Batman Returns" (1992), the sci-fi film "Planet of the Apes" (2001), the fantasy drama "Big Fish" (2003), the musical adventure film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and the fantasy film "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), which garnered a worldwide gross of over $1 billion. This is the complete episode list for "Pee-wee's Playhouse".  A total of 45 half-hour episodes including 1 primetime special were recorded for CBS from 1986 until 1990.  Season 3 only had two episodes, plus the primetime Christmas special, due to production being halted by the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike and also by the production of "Big Top Pee-wee". Pee-wee Aloysius Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens.  He is best known for his two television series and film series during the 1980s.  The childlike Pee-wee Herman character developed as a stage act that quickly led to an HBO special in 1981.  As the stage performance gained further popularity, Reubens took the character to motion picture with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" in 1985, toning down the adult innuendo for the appeal of children.  This paved the way for "Pee-wee's Playhouse", an Emmy Award-winning children's series that ran on CBS from 1986 to 1991.  Another film, "Big Top Pee-wee", was released in 1988. Lou Cutell (born October 6, 1930) is an American movie and television actor.  He portrayed the proctologist, Dr. Cooperman, in "The Fusilli Jerry" episode of the television series "Seinfeld" and Leo Funkhouser on "Curb Your Enthusiasm".  Among cult movie fans, he is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Nadir in "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster", and he can be briefly seen in "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" as Amazing Larry.  In 1998, he also played a small role in "The Odd Couple II" as Abe, one of Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau)'s card-playing friends in Sarasota, Florida.  Recently, he was a series regular on the NBC show, "Betty White's Off Their Rockers".  In 2013, he appeared on the "How I Met Your Mother" episode "Last Time in New York". The Pee-wee Herman Show is a stage show developed by Paul Reubens in 1980.  It marks the first significant appearance of his comedic fictional character, Pee-wee Herman, five years before "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", and six years before "Pee-wee's Playhouse".  The show initially debuted as a midnight show February 1981 at the Groundlings theater, and was later moved to Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre, where the HBO cable network taped one of the shows and aired it as a special that year.  This TV special was released on DVD by Image Entertainment July 18, 2006.  This nightclub show had more adult humor than the later children's TV series. Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman.  Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor.  In 1982, Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing for years.  The show was called "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and it ran for five sold-out months with HBO producing a successful special about it.  Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade, Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee.  In 1985 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial and critical success, and soon developed into a cult film. " Big Top Pee-wee", 1988's sequel, was less successful than its predecessor.  Between 1986 and 1990, Reubens starred as Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children's program "Pee-wee's Playhouse". Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman (September 24, 1948May 28, 1998; born Hartmann) was a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist.  Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States in 1958.  After graduating from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America.  Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman.  Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show "Pee-wee's Playhouse". American actor Kris Kristofferson has been in numerous films, television films, and television series.  He started acting in the 1970s, appearing in the films "The Last Movie" (1971), "Cisco Pike" (1972), "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973), "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), and "Vigilante Force" (1976) before starring in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born" as John Norman Howard which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.  He went on to star in the films "Heaven's Gate" (1980), "Flashpoint" (1984), "Big Top Pee-wee" (1988), and "Welcome Home" (1989). Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length film directing debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman with supporting roles provided by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen.  Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol.  Based on the 1948 Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief", it is the tale of Pee-wee Herman embarking on a nationwide adventure in search for his stolen bicycle.
Answer: Paul Reubens