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Paul Reubens shares a final message about his controversial past in HBO's "Pee-wee as Himself" documentary, recorded just a day before his death.

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.

And Reubens knew as he gave his forty brief hours of sit-down interviews for it that this documentary was going to end up being his last chance at shaping his story the way he wanted to—he’d been secretly fighting cancer for several years (even the filmmakers didn’t know this) and he passed away on July 30th 2023 still in the middle of its making,

Pee-wee as Himself,' a two-part documentary directed by Matt Wolf premiering Friday on HBO, supplies a vivid portrait of Paul Reubens, who receded behind his character.

His place in gay pop culture is complicated, particularly by the media circus that surrounded him after the four-season run of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. But with the film, Reubens finally speaks to his own undeniably queer artistic point of view,

Comedian Paul Reubens' legendary Pee-wee Herman character introduced fans to a wild fact about Texas' the Alamo in the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. In Touch explains how the comedian left his legacy on the landmark amid a new HBO docuseries about the beloved star.