But with “Pee-wee as Himself,” a delightful and moving two-part documentary that premiered at Sundance before it airs on HBO later this year, that tug-of-war is placed front and center.

The late Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, is defining himself after years of speculation about the star's sexuality. Reubens reveals he was gay in the new two-part docuseries “Pee-wee as ...

Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens opened up about his sexuality in the new documentary Pee-wee as Himself. In the new project, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday ...

The late actor — who played the beloved character Pee-wee Herman — died of cancer on July 30, 2023 Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2021 as a digital ...

Matt Wolf's two-part documentary gives the man behind Pee-wee Herman a platform to come out of the closet, but doesn't mask the tension between the filmmaker and a subject with understandable ...

Paul Reubens, the actor behind the iconic character of Pee-wee Herman, posthumously came out as gay in a documentary that premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival. In Pee-wee as Himself ...

In the opening sequence of Matt Wolf’s HBO documentary series “Pee-wee as Himself,” the late artist and performer Paul Reubens mulls over who should have control of a celebrity documentary.

The man staring into the camera is not Pee-wee Herman. He may look a little like him, kinda sorta sound like him, have that same sly, agent-of-chaos-reporting-for-duty-sir smirk. But he is not the ...

The late Pee-wee Herman star Paul Reubens came out as gay in his posthumous documentary Pee-wee as Himself, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday night. Reubens, who passed ...

My father worked on a steamboat,” Paul Reubens tells Matt Wolf, director of the new two-part HBO documentary series, Pee-wee as Himself. He, of course, was not. Reubens was born in Peekskill ...

On the day before his death in 2023, Paul Reubens, the children’s entertainer better known as Pee-wee Herman, recorded a rueful statement about being labeled a “pedophile” after his ...