It looks like Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Rubens–who admits to feeling “like I’m on my third or fourth comeback at least”–is making one more stab at a return to relevancy. Fresh off a guest spot on my favorite show, 30 Rock, he’s apparently lining up new projects under both his given name, as the man-child persona that made him famous.

This fall, Rubens is set to work with Todd Solondz, on the Happiness auteur’s first film in three years. And he’s apparently hoping to get a new Pee Wee movie off the ground as well. “I didn’t do everything I wanted as Pee-wee Herman,” he tells the AP. Rubens has completed two Pee-wee screenplays: a light-hearted road trip reuniting the old Playhouse crew (so, probably this, which IMDb Pro lists as “in production” at Paramount), and a dark satire said to explore ” how Pee-wee deals with Hollywood and the trappings of fame.”

I’m not sure contemporary audiences are exactly clamoring for that one, but the Solondz project sounds interesting. indieWIRE reported last Spring that Solondz had secured financing for a film described as “a kind of sequel to — or riff on — Happiness,” and though 2004’s Palindromes is regular IMDB’s most recent listing for the director, IMDB Pro says the project described by indieWIRE is now called Life During Wartime, and is still in the script phase. So: Pee-Wee+Solondz+Talking Heads reference. It’s not much to report, but it’s a potentially exciting combo.