As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens Wanted Kids to Learn This 1 Quality, He Says Posthumously in New Documentary (Exclusive) Laurence Fishburne is among the stars who pay tribute to the late actor in ...

Reubens’ exploration of these fears is the not-so-secret sauce that makes Pee-wee’s Big Adventure a masterpiece of kids’ cinema. The obvious starting point here is, of course, Large Marge .

As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens Wanted Kids to Learn This 1 Quality, He Says Posthumously in New Documentary (Exclusive) Story by Kate Hogan, Lizzie Hyman • 1w.

Parents loved Pee-wee, too, and college kids gathered to watch him in their dorm rooms. When a stage version of the character came to Broadway in 2010, ticket-buyers of all ages went in costume.

Pee-wee Herman wasn’t originally meant for kids. So when Paul Reubens did make a Saturday-morning TV show for them, his signature character came in a package shaped by underground art, punk rock ...

The influence of Pee-wee Herman—née Paul Reubens—can’t be understated. And in the wake of Reubens’ passing on Sunday night, at the age of 70, it’s an appropriate, if saddening, time to ...

Pee-wee the character was a parody — a high-on-Pixy-Stix exaggeration of the clean-cut kids’ hosts of the 1950s, a Howdy Doody who brought himself to life. But he was also the thing itself.

The self-described drag clown has been in awe of the show since, predictably, childhood. RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner JIMBO on How Pee-wee’s Playhouse Respected Kids’ Intelligence: Podcast ...