Its ensemble cast included both adult and child actors who were at wildly different points in their careers. It's always interesting to see what former child actors look like as adults, especially ...

As someone who grew up enjoying Pee-wee Herman, I was very interested to learn about the man behind the man-child, Paul Reubens, in Pee-wee as Himself. Director Matt Wolf’s two-part documentary ...

When Matt Wolf took on the daunting task of creating a documentary about the enigmatic Paul Reubens, the man behind the flamboyant and charming Pee-wee Herman, the filmmaker never could have ...

It wasn't until I watched Pee-wee as Himself, the new two-part documentary on Max about the life and career of Paul Reubens, (aka Pee-wee Herman), that it hit me just how lucky we were to grow up ...

“Pee-Wee as Himself” is not only a celebration of an artist's unique work, but of the stubborn ambition that goes along with it. If you want to understand the pain and frustration that goes ...

Paul Reubens did not tell his director, Matt Wolf, that he was dying from cancer. The actor and comedian, who famously starred as Pee-wee Herman in the 1980s, passed away in 2023 at age 70. Before ...

When the name Pee-wee Herman comes up, some people might think of the 1985 Tim Burton film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” Others might remember the children’s television show “Pee-wee’s ...

Countless memes exist about how Gen X is a tough, often overlooked generation, and there are a million more memes about how we're also an apathetic generation (say whatever you want about us, I ...

The new two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” premiered on HBO and Max on May 23, a complex portrait of a complicated man, Paul Reubens, who found fame as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman ...

Actor and comedian Paul Reubens had myelogenous leukemia and metastatic lung cancer during the filming of the docuseries “Pee-wee as Himself,” but almost no one knew it at the time.