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’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 ...

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Paul Reubens, the actor best known for his alter ego of Pee-wee Herman, died in 2023 after a private six-year battle with cancer. Near the end of his life ...

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 ...

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 ...