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Pee-Wee as Himself is a 2025 American documentary series directed and produced by Matt Wolf. It follows the life and career of actor and comedian Paul Reubens, most known for portraying the character Pee-wee Herman. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2025. [1] [2]
When Pee-wee's fame started growing, Reubens started to move away from the spotlight, keeping his name under wraps and making all his public appearance and interviews in character while billing Pee-wee as playing himself; Reubens was trying to "get the public to think that that was a real person".
Paul Reubens, best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, reflected on his controversial past before he died in 2023. In the upcoming HBO docuseries Pee-wee as Himself, the late actor — who died of ...
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In the weeks after Reubens's arrest, "Free Pee-wee" rallies were held in Los Angeles and New York, and Reubens's celebrity pals — a list that included Cyndi Lauper, Joan Rivers and Robert Klein ...
Reubens once called his first script The Pee-wee Herman Story, [9] describing it as a black comedy. He also referred to the script as "dark Pee-wee" or "adult Pee-wee", [10] with the plot involving Pee-wee becoming famous as a singer after making a hit single and moving to Hollywood, where "he does everything wrong and becomes a big jerk". [11]
The actor had been fighting cancer privately for the past six years.
The Pee-wee Herman Show played for five sellout months at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, whereupon HBO filmed it and aired it as a special on September 11, 1981. Following the success of The Pee-wee Herman Show, in the early and mid-1980s Reubens made several guest appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as Pee-wee Herman. These ...