The ’Pee-wee as Himself’ Trailer Is a Party, and You’re Invited The two-part posthumous Paul Reubens documentary out of Sundance premieres one month from today on HBO and Max.

Pee-wee as Himself, the two-part, three-and-a-half-hour doc on both Reubens and the Frankenstein-monster manchild who eclipsed him, is nothing if not a portrait of the artist as a control freak.

The subject was Paul Reubens, the actor best known as Pee-wee Herman, who had been diagnosed with cancer six years prior. “Paul was very preoccupied with the film being finished before he died,” says ...

Pee-wee as Himself, the two-part, three-and-a-half-hour doc on both Reubens and the Frankenstein-monster manchild who eclipsed him, is nothing if not a portrait of the artist as a control freak.