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 ...

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 14: Actor Paul Reubens 'Pee-wee Herman' speaks onstage at the 10th Annual TV Land Awards at the Lexington Avenue Armory on April 14, 2012 in New ...

The two-part posthumous Paul Reubens documentary out of Sundance premieres one month from today on HBO and Max. By Tony Maglio The man behind Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens (Blow), is ready to truly ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The world knew and loved Pee-wee Herman for more than four decades, but how much did anyone know the man behind the child-like character in the gray suit and red bow tie? Just before he died in 2023, ...

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 character ...

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 ...

From a boy without a bike in the 1980s to a 21st-century Netflix superstar, Pee-wee Herman was the world’s best-loved manchild. Traveler, inventor, farmer, singer… Pee-wee did it all! But how did he ...

A new documentary airing on HBO tonight will serve as the definitive portrait of Paul Reubens and his comedic alter-ego Pee-wee Herman. “Pee-wee as Himself” was primarily filmed prior to Reubens’ ...