Prior to his death, Paul Reubens sat down to be interviewed for what would become the new HBO documentary, Pee-wee as Himself. “I really want to set the record straight on a couple things,” the ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This two-part film, which premiered at this year's Sundance, was a collaboration between veteran filmmaker Matt Wolf ("Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project") and Paul Reubens — Pee-wee ...

Paul Reubens has left the Earth, riding a sporty red-and-white bicycle into that Puppetland from whose bourn no traveler returns, but leaving us with his great creation and alter ego: Pee-wee Herman.

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 and his ...

The first time we see Paul Reubens in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” he is not playing Pee-wee Herman, the antic man-child he portrayed in comedy routines, movies, a children’s TV show and most ...

Pee-wee As Himself tells the story of how a kid who grew up adoring The Little Rascals and I Love Lucy went on to revolutionize sketch comedy and children's television. In 1986, one of the most ...

The two-part HBO documentary series, “Pee-wee as Himself” follows in the footsteps of “Faye,” “Sly,” and “Martha”; that is, it’s a film where the subject speaks for himself in interviews conducted by ...

Before his death in 2023, Reubens filmed an HBO documentary in which he explained why he refused to be seen or interviewed as himself for the whole time Pee-Wee Herman was starring in TV and films.

On July 30, 2023, the entertainment world lost a pop culture icon when Paul Reubens passed away at the age of 70 after a private battle with cancer. The entertainer had built up quite a reputation for ...

Countless memes exist about how Gen X is a tough, often overlooked generation, and there are a million more memes about how we're also an apathetic generation (say whatever you want about us, I don't ...

Paul Reubens, subject of a new HBO documentary, was in the closet — but his famous character wasn't Tom Gliatto reviews the latest TV and movie releases for PEOPLE Magazine. He also writes many of the ...