Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I know you are, but what am I?" That was one of Pee-wee Herman’s trademark comebacks to bullies and bossy people during his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pee-wee Herman, whose resurrection from scandal is now almost complete, appears to be the same boy-man of old, untouched by time. He's still in his 1950s-style suit, making the same ...

In this Oct. 29, 2010, photo, Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, poses on stage after a performance of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" on Broadway in New York. AP Americans today seem to almost ...

Our culture’s inability to contend with mortality places artists like Paul Reubens in a domain that was uniquely his, where he maintained the illusion that benevolent childishness defies aging. This ...

The world of Pee-wee’s Playhouse was a realm of kinetic fantasies. A home where your imaginary friends might live. Claymation dinosaurs resided in the walls. All the furniture was alive and chatty.

At the beginning of the 1988 film “Big Top Pee-wee,” the circus blows into town — literally, thanks to a wind-whipping storm — and lands on none other than Pee-wee Herman’s farm. Pee-wee (Paul Reubens ...