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, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s a common joke on what used to be Twitter anytime a countercultural icon dies, but in this case it’s the literal truth: Pee-wee Herman did teach me it’s okay to be ...

Paul Reubens died on July 30, 2023 at the age of 70 following a private battle with cancer. He was an incredibly talented actor, comedian, and the brilliant man behind the overgrown child known as Pee ...

Who says you can't teach an old dog—or an old clarinetist—new tricks? Approaching his 60th birthday in the early '60s, Pee Wee Russell, long associated with Dixieland and traditional jazz, formed a ...

Even as Reubens wanted to impact kids with TV the way it impacted him, he lost part of himself by having his alter ego pass as a real person. Director Matt Wolf shrewdly recounts Reubens’ life and his ...

Welcome to No Shame November! This week we're diving into the pop culture we love that society tells us we shouldn't. In 2020, I’ve fantasized about burning my home down with alarming frequency.

Elaine Bogan takes a nostalgia trip for this week’s edition of The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them. Bogan has ...

The day the World Health Organization labeled Omicron a “variant of concern” felt as heavy as any since the pandemic had begun, and I was listening to Pee-wee Herman crack bad jokes with a talking ...

Bob Greene’s tribute to Pee Wee Reese, “The Man Who Stood Beside Jackie Robinson” (op-ed, June 27), brought to mind a memory of my own. On Sept. 6, 1955, as a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, I was part of ...

Pee Wee Russell enjoyed a significant comeback with the original release of this session. Not content to live in the past, Russell doesn’t gaze in the rearview mirror as far back as we would expect.