Over the course of two years, Matt Wolf spent hours interviewing Paul Reubens for his new HBO documentary “Pee-Wee as Himself,” capturing a portrait of a man who could be warm and inviting on some ...
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 his ...
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 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 ...
Pee-wee Herman, the comic creation of actor/writer Paul Reubens, would often toss taunts of the schoolyard into his casual conversation. It was one of the character's go-to bits. "Why don't you take a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The two-part documentary 'Pee-wee as Himself', premieres May 23 on HBO Paul Reubens died just one week before what was supposed to be a pivotal interview. The actor, renowned for his whimsical alter ...
Actor and comedian Paul Reubens has passed away at the age of 70 after a private, years-long battle with cancer. RIP. For many of us, he was an inspiration: Pee-wee never let the world tell him he was ...
When it was announced Monday that Paul Reubens died at age 70, fans around the world mourned an artist. But they were even more devastated by the passing of their dear old friend Pee-wee Herman. That ...
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, ...