Even as Reubens wanted to impact kids with TV the way it impacted him, he lost part of himself by having his alter ego pass as a real person. Director Matt Wolf shrewdly recounts Reubens’ life ...

Paul Reubens knew he was dying, and the director didn’t, as they were making “Pee-wee as Himself,” an extraordinary documentary that pulls back the curtain on the man known to the world as ...

Paul Reubens’s performance as Pee-wee Herman gave fans “license to be weird.” At an underground cabaret, he cheered on his community of renegades. Paul Reubens, as seen in the documentary ...

Saturday-morning TV is traditionally for kids, but this quasi-adult drank many a weekend coffee watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” wishing I had a comfortable Chairry, a genie like Jambi ...

You know him as "Pee-wee Herman," but in a new documentary, he wants you to know him simply as Paul Reubens. "Pee-wee as Himself," a two-part HBO series, shows a side of the beloved children's ...

Moments into the illuminating, two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself, what emerges pretty quickly is a struggle for control. Paul Reubens, the performer who invented the Pee-wee Herman ...

When scandal hit, that wasn’t possible and a different man – a man unlike Pee-wee Herman – emerged. In the uber-long two-part documentary, “Pee-wee as Himself,” filmmaker Matt Wolf tries ...

Pee-wee as Himself is an upcoming American documentary series directed and produced by Matt Wolf. It offers an intimate look at the life and career of Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian famous ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens passed away at the age of 70 in July 2023. He died of cancer ...