Groundlings tapes and excerpts from early media appearances like The Gong Show that might make one lament Reubens’ hypothetical chameleonic career that Pee-wee consumed like so many unborn ...

As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens was a performance artist hiding in plain sight in mainstream popular culture. His fictional ...

Advertisement Years ago on television there was a program called ‘The Gong Show’. Amateur ‘entertainers’ would come out and perform in front of three celebrity judges and a television ...

How much of Pee-wee is Reubens or how much of Reubens is Pee-wee is left for audiences to deduce. But Reubens does show how at least one of Pee-wee’s mannerisms was stolen from his ex ...

and when his Pee-wee stage show exploded in LA, the actor chose to conceal his private life entirely. “I was out of the closet, and then I went back in the closet,” he says in the movie.

Before he died in 2023, Paul Reubens conducted 40 hours of interviews about his life and career with filmmaker Matt Wolf.

Paul Reubens reveals the man behind his most well-known role, Pee-Wee Herman, in the new documentary series Pee-wee as Himself. During a party at his alma mater California Institute of the Arts ...

Reubens’ success as Pee-wee was undeniable. Throughout the 1980s, the character became a fixture on late-night television, landing the star his Emmy-winning children’s show, Pee-wee’s Playhous e, and ...