The bike, seen in the 1985 classic 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure,' sold for $125,000 at auction in May Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 ...

For those of us who were sitting around the television in 1988, Christmas at Pee Wee’s Playhouse was certainly unlike anything that we had ever seen. That year, holiday specials ran rampant over ...

Keijsers Koning From underground punk comics to fine gallery walls, Gary Panter’s edgy imagery has made quite a mark on pop culture. Perhaps best known for his punk-rock everyman character Jimbo and ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...

From a boy without a bike in the 1980s to a 21st-century Netflix superstar, Pee-wee Herman was the world’s best-loved manchild. Traveler, inventor, farmer, singer… Pee-wee did it all! But how did he ...

The iconic lead of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse," Paul Reubens, passed away at the age of 70 after privately living with cancer for several years. He was preceded in death by many other actors from the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s been 35 years since Pee-wee’s Playhouse aired its final episode on CBS, and the iconic comedy ...

Every filmmaker has that one movie that puts them on the map, and for Tim Burton, it was his very first film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Pee-wee's Big Adventure premiered in 1985, and sees the quirky ...

The 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards wrapped up on Sunday in Los Angeles, and the night delivered a bittersweet milestone: Paul Reubens won his first Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary or ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn -- Coney Island had its first Pee-wee Herman universe look-alike contest, and it lived up to the billing. Adam Rinn, artistic director at the arts organization Coney Island USA, ...

Americans today seem to almost venerate nonconformity: “Living your truth” is perhaps our society’s one unquestionable imperative. But what stands out about our approach to nonconformity is how much ...

After bringing out droves of doppelgangers for Adam Sandler, Jeremy Allen White and Timothée Chalamet, New York City has proven to be the right destination for celebrity look-alike contests. Next up, ...