As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens was a performance artist hiding in plain sight in mainstream popular culture. His fictional character, a hyperactive, bow-tied man-child, provided subversive messages ...

He also appeared as Pee-wee at the 1991 MTV Music Awards and was a guest on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Still, the damage was done and Reubens ...

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 ...

The second episode picks up with Pee-wee’s Playhouse and many of the show’s key collaborators, including Laurence Fishburne, Lynne Marie Stewart, S. Epatha Merkerson and Natasha Lyonne.

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 ...

and when his Pee-wee stage show exploded in LA, the actor chose to conceal his private life entirely. “I was out of the closet, and then I went back in the closet,” he says in the movie.

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 ...