Paul Reubens knew he was dying, and the director didn’t, as they were making “Pee-wee as Himself,” an extraordinary documentary that pulls back the curtain on the man known to the world as Pee-wee ...

Paul Reubens reveals the man behind his most well-known role, Pee-Wee Herman, in the new documentary series Pee-wee as Himself. During a party at his alma mater California Institute of the Arts, ...

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 ...

In the new two-part documentary Pee-wee as Himself, Paul Reubens, best known for his alter ego Pee-wee Herman, aims to "set the record straight" about the moments that shaped and broke his career. The ...

A two-part documentary about the life of Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Reubens sat for over 40 hours of interviews with director Matt Wolf to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...