Paul Reubens, the eccentric performance artist best known as Pee-wee Herman, was an intensely private person. After a number of people had approached him about making a documentary about himself, he ...

Inside the year Paul Reubens effectively shelved the Emmy-nominated documentary, and how it changed Wolf as a filmmaker and person. Wolf’s introduction to Reubens came through Josh and Benny Safdie, ...

Pee-wee Herman was director Matt Wolf’s dream subject for a documentary, he says. By Matthew Jacobs [email protected] Streaming services are teeming with celebrity documentaries, but few of those movies ...

Natasha Lyonne has seen a lot of life in her 46 years, and it all started with her on-screen debut as a child actor on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” The lifelong performer — best known for her recent string ...

Of the very many famous people who admired the late comic actor Paul Reubens’ singular creation named Pee-wee Herman — among them Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, film director John Waters, Lily Tomlin, ...

Paul Reubens’ net worth in 2025 reflects his decades-long impact as a comedian, actor, and creator of one of television’s most iconic characters – Pee-wee Herman. Known for his offbeat humor and ...

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. Reubens died at ...

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pee-wee as Himself – a new documentary tracing the life and career of Paul Reubens, now streaming with a Max subscription – is that the film got made in the first ...

Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying. On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens’ death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him ...

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, and ...

Some bio documentaries are carried mostly by the reflective, archival footage that send you back to the subject’s heyday. But in Matt Wolf’s “Pee-wee as Himself” – as wonderful as much of the archival ...