Matt Wolf admits that there were some struggles in making his documentary film Pee-wee as Himself, which tells the story of comedian Paul Ruebens and the epic character he created. “My first meeting ...

It’s an interesting paradox — craving the spotlight and capturing it by burying one’s real self in the process. That’s one of the many questions explored in “Pee-wee as Himself,” a nearly ...

Paul Reubens—who was famously private and perhaps better known as his alter ego Pee-wee Herman—is the subject of a new HBO documentary. So we're looking back at Reubens' interview with Terry Gross in ...

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 ...

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 ...