For generations, people laughed along with Pee-wee Herman. However, the silly man with the red bowtie wasn’t born with the stage name that fans came to recognize. In Touch breaks down everything you ...

Paul Reubens, best known for playing the character Pee-wee Herman, comes out and discusses his sexual orientation in a posthumous, two-part documentary from HBO that just had its world premiere at the ...

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 ...

For the first time, meet the man behind the character. Check out the Pee-wee as Himself trailer for the upcoming two-part documentary starring Paul Reubens. Pee-wee as Himself, directed by Matt Wolf, ...

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 ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The film is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” in which a wealthy businessman ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing. Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on her way to the prom a few decades earlier and finally turned up, ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...

Americans today seem to almost venerate nonconformity: “Living your truth” is perhaps our society’s one unquestionable imperative. But what stands out about our approach to nonconformity is how much ...

Pee-wee Herman, orchid smuggling and murder-for-hire plots – these 11 Sarasota-Manatee trials made national headlines over the last few decades.

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 and pull ...