Paul Reubens committed to profound silliness without ever going mean or dark — though some peers were disappointed that he focused on one character. By Jason Zinoman Of all the great flesh-and-blood ...
From creating the Large Marge who scarred us all to being in a dinosaur's mouth with Reubens, the cast and creative team relive the 1985 classic with IndieWire. It’s been 40 years since Pee-wee Herman ...
Most people first saw Paul Reubens as Pee-wee in "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" or on "Pee-wee's Playhouse," but you may be surprised by where he made his TV debut.
Paul Reubens’s oddball masterpiece celebrated the kind of anarchy that captivates kids and freaks out adults. By James Poniewozik “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” premiered on CBS in 1986, the year I graduated ...
Out of the smoggy, lingering weight of the late 1970s, at a time when boomer culture was overly obsessed with stick-it-to-the-man humor (the Blues Brothers, “Animal House,” George Carlin, Richard ...
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 ...
When he starts hyperventilating his way through a theme song to the audience of Angeleno hipsters at the Roxy Theatre (“Onyourmark getready getset/Now go-go-go-go-GO!”), you wonder if you’ve stumbled ...
"The Playhouse will always be here for everyone to play in," the late Reubens promised at the end of his series' final episode in 1990. "Forever and ever and ever. On that, you have my WORD!!" There’s ...
You piss off a bar full of surly bikers by telling them to shut up so you can make a phone call and then knock over about a dozen over their motorcycles? If you’re Pee-wee Herman, the perpetual ...
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