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 Himself is an upcoming American documentary series directed and produced by Matt Wolf. It offers an intimate look at the life and career of Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian famous ...

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 ...

(Pee-wee is always only himself, but Paul Reubens was often — and the only — Pee-wee Herman.) Identity is at the heart of this story — the unresolvable relationship between the real self ...

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 ...

But do you have any recollection of the man who brought Pee-wee Herman to life, save for a fuzzy memory of a few incriminatory headlines? In “Pee-wee as Himself,” Paul Reubens makes it clear ...

When scandal hit, that wasn’t possible and a different man – a man unlike Pee-wee Herman – emerged. In the uber-long two-part documentary, “Pee-wee as Himself,” filmmaker Matt Wolf tries ...

PAUL REUBENS: (As Pee-wee Herman) Hey. CYNDI LAUPER: (Singing) Come in, and pull yourself up a chair. REUBENS: (As Pee-wee Herman) Like Chairry. SUMMERS: "Pee-wee's Playhouse" had a zany cast of ...

The two-part documentary 'Pee-wee as Himself', premieres May 23 on HBO Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, where she contributes in-depth features and covers entertainment and news ...

In 1986, one of the most unusual and iconic kids' TV shows debuted. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE THEME") PAUL REUBENS: (As Pee-wee Herman) Hey. CYNDI LAUPER: (Singing) Come in ...

But in Matt Wolf’s “Pee-wee as Himself” — as wonderful as much of the archival stuff is — nothing is more compelling than when Paul Reubens is simply himself. Before his death from ...

"To be able to get your message in at the last minute is incredible." That's the gist of Pee-wee as Himself, an HBO Original two-part documentary debuting next Friday, May 23, on HBO and Max.