"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's ...

For a documentary so packed with Pee-wee Herman lore that it required two 90-minute segments, Pee-wee As Himself glosses over some critical parts of the character’s history. While the majority of Paul ...

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 ...

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 “Pee-wee as ...

Beloved funnyman Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens passed away in 2023, and at the time, the news came as a big surprise to fans. Reubens had been privately living with cancer, keeping his diagnosis a ...

When filmmaker Matt Wolf begin conversations with Paul Reubens about a documentary — one that included his alter ego Pee-wee Herman — “it was clear there could be a power struggle.” Reubens, he says, ...