The American actor and performance artist Paul Reubens spent decades in the cloak of his alter ego, the strange, effervescent children’s entertainer Pee-wee Herman. Reubens liked the shadows and the ...

“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 ...

When the new HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself premiered, it peeled back the impish grin of Paul Reubens's iconic character and offered audiences a rare glimpse at the tender, tormented, and fiercely ...

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 ...

You remember the distinctive laugh, the gray, slender-fitting suit and the cherry red bow tie. But do you have any recollection of the man who brought Pee-wee Herman to life, save for a fuzzy memory ...

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 ...

“Death is just so final. To be able to get your message in at the last minute, or at some point, is incredible," Reubens said in 'Pee-wee as Himself' Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, ...