To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing. Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on her way to the prom a few decades earlier and finally turned up, ...

Former Playhouse Gang member Shaun Weiss needed to connect the dots. "I'm not sure that I really understood the difference between real life and movies [at that time]," he said. John Kisch ...

Paul Reubens, who found fame as the quirky man-child character Pee-wee Herman, has died, according to an announcement on his verified social media. He was 70. Reubens died Sunday night after a ...

This is FRESH AIR. Paul Reubens, the actor best known for his alter ego of Pee-wee Herman, died in 2023 after a private six-year battle with cancer. Near the end of his life, Reubens collaborated on a ...

Shaun Weiss says that Paul Reubens "never" broke character while on the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse — even dressing up as the iconic Pee-wee Herman to make the young actor more comfortable during his ...

I do not observe Christmas, and do my best to avoid all its attendant hoopla. And I didn’t grow up watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” a show for which I was a bit outside the target demographic when it ...

Pee-wee Herman, created and portrayed by Paul Reubens, is a truly unique and quirky character in pop culture. The character would debut on stage before breaking into mainstream fame with Pee-wee's Big ...