After a long hiatus, the character was revived for the stage with "The Pee-wee Herman Show" in 2010, which ran in LA and on Broadway. Six years later, Pee-wee returned on Netflix for the film "Pee ...

Reubens debuted Pee-wee Herman while performing with comedy troupe the Groundlings in 1981, and when his Pee-wee stage show exploded in LA, the actor chose to conceal his private life entirely.

He eventually had a small comeback, starring in “The Pee-wee Herman Show” on Broadway in 2010 and making the 2016 film “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” among other smaller acting and voice roles.

A Pee-wee harmonica provided the first name. Memories of a manic, obnoxious kid in Florida whose surname was Herman completed the handle. The group’s stage show would double as something like a ...

“I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River. My father worked on a steamboat,” Paul Reubens tells Matt Wolf, director of the new two-part HBO documentary series ...