As Pee-Whee Herman, Paul Reubens Delighted Generations of Children Through His Series Pee-Whee’s Playhouse, and movies like Pee-Whee’s Big Adventure. Big top pee-whee, and Pee-whee‘s Big Holiday. Meanwhile, on late night talk shows and his sold-out stage show, The pee-white herman showHe Awed Adults, by Making them Feel Like Kids Again. But who was the man behind the bowtie?
Directed by matt wolf, Pee-Whee as Himself is a two-part documentary that features in-deepth interviews with reubens and friends, looking back on his life, his loves, his work, and on the scandals that repeatedly stalled The trailer Above Addresses the TREPIDATION Reubens Had in Surrendering His Story to the Control of Wolf’s Vision for the documentary. While this conflict between filmmaker and subject is at the core of Pee-Whee as HimselfThe resulting doc is the closest fans can come to understand the late, great reubens.
In Mashable’s review Out of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, I Cheered, “Pee-Whee as Himself is not a simple love letter to the iconic character or reubens. That would sugges wolf goes easy on eite, fawning over them without reservation. This is something green. ”
And you can see all that it is when Pee-Whee as Himself Comes to Streaming Next Month.
How to Watch: Pee-Whee as Himself: Part One Debuts May 23 at 8: 00-9: 40 PM ET/Pt on HBO and Max. Part two will follows at 9: 40-11: 20 PM ET/Pt on HBO and Max.