"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 ...

Since this is the final Reps column of 2023, it’s time to start workshopping those 2024 resolutions. Here’s an idea: Start each day a little more like Pee-wee Herman. Sure, society prevents us from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Considering that Paul Reubens helped deconstruct performance art and children’s TV — not your usual combo — is it any surprise that “Pee-wee as Himself” deconstructs the documentary? It is not. And we ...

When I was a kid, my three brothers were into the typical boy things: sports, games, action movies. I never really responded to any of that. Instead, my thing was Pee-wee Herman. I can distinctly ...

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 ...

Late actor Paul Reubens, known for portraying the character Pee-wee Herman, came out as gay in his posthumous HBO documentary. The two-part HBO special, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ...

Somehow, amid all the colorful claymation and puppetry, the human character at the center was the most animated of all. I spent many Saturday mornings sitting on the living room carpet in my ...

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 ...