“Pee-wee as Himself,” touches on the highs and lows of Reubens’ life and career prior to his fame. He gets a call to work with Steve Martin. He loses his ex to AIDS. And he fails an audition for “ Saturday Night Live ,” which crushes him but also spurs Reubens to forge his own career.

In the upcoming HBO docuseries 'Pee-wee as Himself', which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Paul Reubens recalls the "painful" memory of being falsely labeled a "pedophile" following his two arrests.

"Pee-wee Herman" star Paul Reubens, who died in 2023, has posthumously revealed he was gay in a new documentary unveiled at Sundance Film Festival.

Better known for his broad smile and silly voices, Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens becomes rawly emotional in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film

Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.

I was secretive about my sexuality even to my friends… [out of] self-hatred or self-preservation,” the late actor said in an interview with HBO.

"I was secretive about my sexuality even to my friends," Reubens revealed in the new documentary Pee-wee as Himself.

I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens - better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman - at the outset of “Pee-Wee as Himself,

Nearly a year and a half after Pee-wee Herman star Paul Reubens passed away from acute hypoxic respiratory failure at the age of 70, the late actor came out as gay during one of his final interviews.